He picks up the shoe, and sighed seeing a few knots in it. He mumbled some French curse words, then started to work to untying them. He looked forward to the competition that would be there, between the both of them. There was going to be so many new faces here, too. He looked forward to seeing what would happen.

At the very least, it will be an interesting Grand Prix.

"Yes." His eyes fell on Yuri, almost finished working through the knots. "Will you answer? Because I won't bother wasting my effort if you won't answer." He untied the last knot, slipping the shoe onto his foot, and working on tying it.