It's probably easier to do someone else's hair than your own, especially with their respective heights being what they are. Yukimura will allow her to think it a fair comparison, though. She seems pleased as it is. He smiles at her, partly in fondness over her elated twirl, and partly with an edge of fighting spirit for the approaching battle.

"Show me in the match."

He puts the mirror away and, after a smile from luck in the right to serve first, moves to the baseline to start the game with a flawless high-speed serve to the outside corner of the deuce court service box, not unlike that of the one Echizen used to begin his counteroffensive in their Nationals face-off.