"Hm? Because I'm interested. Watching your matches is the best part of the World Cup."

It's easy for the response to sound natural-- it's the truth, after all. And if there happens to be more to it than that, like the flicker of comprehension in that answer of what inevitably lay ahead of him and Kite if they want to prevail, that's nothing Yukimura needs to be troubled with. It wouldn't be the World Cup if it wasn't a challenge of the tallest order. The best pair will win; that's all there is to it.