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[00:07] ---
This is all of the 35 million yen.
[00:10] oug
Hang on... If it's based on the
point difference between the two,
[00:13] oug
it should be 41 million yen.
[00:15] suz
We've deducted the six million yen
to return his 600 cc of blood.
[00:22] oug
Oh, right. I see.
[00:24] aka
That's not necessary.
[00:26] oug
What?
[00:27] Aka
Just a tiny shove, then you can kill me.
[00:32] Aka
That's your hope.
[00:36] Aka
I want all my winnings in cash.
[00:40] Yasu
Akagi!
[00:42] Aka
Ougi-san,
[00:45] Aka
we can't destroy this old man's hope.
[00:48] Aka
Even if it burns them,
people will go to where there's hope.
[00:53] was
Hope? For me?
[00:58] was
From you?
[01:00] Aka
Yes,
[01:03] Aka
in order to kill you.
[01:08] Was
Damn you!
[01:17] oug
Damn...
[01:18] oug
It's something we can't even comprehend.
[01:21] oug
Why won't he take back his blood?
[01:23] Yasu
To us it's unfathomable,
[01:25] Yasu
but Akagi himself decided to do it this way.
[01:30] Yasu
That means it's probably necessary.
[01:32] oug
Necessary? What if he
takes a direct mangan hit?
[01:36] oug
That would be 1,400 cc.
[01:38] oug
He'd be on the verge of death!
[01:40] oug
If he gets that fierce wind, then what?
[01:41] Yasu
Fierce wind?
[01:44] oug
The fierce wind of pure luck.
[01:46] oug
If Washizu gets that, Akagi or not,
he won't be able to do anything.
[01:51] oug
It'll be over.
[01:53] Yasu
True...
[01:57] Yasu
There are times in Mahjong when
you just cannot be lucky at all.
[02:03] oug
Is he saying that he can still
get through it, despite that?
[02:07] Aka
No...
[02:10] Aka
Nobody can control luck.
[02:13] oug
Right?
[02:14] Aka
But that doesn't mean there are no options.
[02:20] Aka
Like fighting back against it,
no matter how bad your luck is.
[02:27] Yasu
You mean, trying to control even luck?
[02:29] Aka
No.
[02:31] Aka
If you're controlling it...
[02:39] Aka
It ceases to be luck.
SIGN Second Game
SIGN East Hand 1
[03:03] oug
Akagi, are you really sure about this?
[03:06] oug
Right now, you're standing
on the edge of a cliff.
[03:11] oug
Since you say that nobody can control luck,
all we can do now is pray.
[03:18] oug
Pray that that fierce wind of
pure luck won't come to Washizu.
[03:28] Was
Tsumo.
[03:30] Was
Tanyao, tsumo, two dora. Mangan.
[03:32] oug
A mangan tsumo already.
[03:35] oug
Looks like luck is on Washizu's side.
[03:38] was
Extract the blood!
[04:00] Nar
It's only East Hand 1,
[04:02] Nar
but Washizu has already gained
a 10,000 point lead on Akagi.
[04:09] Nar
Then, in East Hand 2,
his underling deals into his hand...
[04:13] Was
Ron.
[04:17] Nar
Then, in East Hand 3,
Washizu shuts out Akagi with a tsumo.
[04:23] Was
Tsumo.
[04:28] Was
Tsumo.
[04:31] Was
Tanpin tsumo.
[04:32] Nar
Washizu completely dominates the East round.
[04:33] was
Iipeikou, two dora. Haneman.
SIGN Iipeikou - Double sequence in the same suit, e.g. 223344
[04:38] nar
The gap between him and Akagi has
now widened to 25,800 points.
[04:44] Was
Yes, yes, yes, yes! Let's draw
more blood! More blood!
[04:48] Nar
The two tsumo wins add up to 500 cc.
[04:54] Nar
Combined with the 600 cc lost in the
first game, that is a total of 1,100 cc.
[05:00] Nar
It is over half the lethal amount.
[05:04] oug
I told you so.
[05:06] oug
Luck is totally with the other side.
[05:08] oug
What is he going to do?
[05:09] Yasu
What do you mean by that?
[05:14] oug
Akagi, what options do you think you have?
[05:18] Was
Boy...
[05:23] Was
You're going to die at this rate.
[05:38] Yasu
What are you going to do, Akagi?
SIGN Episode 3
SIGN Washizu Mahjong
[06:07] Nar
Washizu Mahjong.
[06:10] Nar
These are the tiles used.
[06:15] Nar
Three of the four tiles in each suit are transparent,
making their faces visible even from the back,
[06:23] Nar
and only one is a regular tile with a black back.
[06:30] Nar
No walls are built in Washizu Mahjong.
[06:34] Nar
Tiles for the starting hand and each draw are
taken from a hole in the middle of the table,
[06:43] Nar
wearing a leather glove on the right hand
to prevent feeling which tile is grabbed.
[07:03] Nar
Once the starting hands are drawn,
the dealer draws one more tile from the hole.
[07:08] Nar
This is the dora indicator.
[07:13] Nar
The same applies to reverse
dora and new dora from kan,
[07:18] Nar
which are drawn from the
hole when the need arises.
[07:24] Nar
If Akagi can survive through six East-South
matches with these rules, his side wins.
[07:31] Nar
Should he die before then,
[07:34] Nar
he will lose all that he had
amassed up to that point,
[07:38] Nar
and victory will go to Washizu's side.
SIGN 1000 points = 1 million
[07:42] Nar
The rate is set at 1,000 points
being worth 1 million yen,
[07:45] Nar
or 100 cc of blood.
SIGN 1000 points = 100 cc of blood
[07:49] Nar
It's a one-on-one match
between Akagi and Washizu.
[07:53] Nar
At the end of each East-South match,
points are tallied up, including rank bonuses.
[07:58] Nar
Additionally, bonus payments
are due every time a direct hit
[08:03] Nar
or a tsumo win causes points to trade
hands between Akagi and Washizu.
[08:09] Nar
These payments are made
immediately, in cash or blood.
[08:18] Nar
This is the essence of Washizu Mahjong.
SIGN Washizu Mahjong
SIGN Second Game
SIGN South Hand 1
[08:46] oug
All right!
[08:47] oug
He beat Washizu to tenpai.
[08:52] oug
A tanpin sanshoku hand.
[08:55] oug
And he's got his waits well
hidden by the black tiles.
[08:59] oug
This isn't an easy hand to read.
[09:11] Aka
Ron.
[09:15] Aka
Tanpin, sanshoku, two dora.
[09:17] Aka
Haneman.
[09:18] Nar
Akagi is at 34,900 points
after this direct hit haneman.
[09:24] Nar
After Washizu coughed up
12,000 points, the point gap
[09:27] Nar
is now a mere 1,800 points.
[09:29] oug
Yes, you've closed the gap now!
[09:33] oug
Let's return all of the 1,100 cc
of blood you've lost!
[09:37] Aka
I don't need it.
[09:39] oug
Why not?!
[09:40] yas
Akagi!
[09:42] Aka
Don't make me repeat myself.
[09:43] Aka
Just give it all to me in money.
[09:47] oug
Akagi, are you in your right mind?
[09:49] Yasu
What are you talking about?
This is the time to replenish!
[09:52] Aka
You're still saying that?
[09:55] oug
Huh?
[10:00] Aka
This is where the abnormal is normal.
[10:05] Aka
I'm going to only grab money here, like a miser.
[10:07] Aka
Only then can I
[10:10] Aka
kill Washizu.
[10:15] oug
Akagi...
SIGN Second Game
SIGN South Hand 2
[10:30] oug
I cannot understand this, Akagi.
[10:35] oug
Why don't you try to get out of this danger zone?
[10:40] oug
Even if you managed to get luck
on your side in the South round,
[10:43] oug
one dealer mangan direct hit from
Washizu would still cost you 1,200 cc.
[10:47] oug
It doesn't change the fact
that you will die from that!
[10:54] oug
Stay away, fierce wind.
[11:04] oug
We can't have the wind of
luck blowing toward Washizu!
[11:23] AkaL
Pinfu, tsumo, ittsuu, one dora.
SIGN Ittsuu - Full straight, 1-9 of one suit.
[11:25] AkaL
Mangan.
[11:27] oug
Yes, you're back in the lead!
[11:28] Nar
With his mangan tsumo, Akagi gets
4,000 points from the dealer, Washizu.
[11:34] Nar
He takes the lead and the point
difference between them is now 10,200.
[11:38] Nar
For his bonus payment, he can either
choose 4 million yen from Washizu,
[11:43] Nar
or returning 400 cc of blood.
[11:48] oug
Akagi, the blood...
[11:50] Aka
Money.
[11:52] Was
Boy...
SIGN Second Game
SIGN South Hand 3
[12:26] oug
Is he close to tenpai?
[12:31] oug
Not yet...
[12:41] Yasu
Ron.
[12:42] Yasu
Just the red dragon.
[12:44] Yasu
Sorry.
[12:46] oug
Throwing away 1,000 points
to block his win, huh?
[12:56] oug
Akagi, just one hand left.
[12:59] oug
The luck is entirely with you.
[13:01] oug
You managed to call it to your side.
[13:04] Aka
I wonder about that.
[13:05] oug
Huh?
[13:07] oug
But you've gotten these consecutive
wins and you're back in the lead.
[13:09] Yasu
He's right.
[13:10] Yasu
We need to keep at it and
stop them from winning.
[13:12] Was
You say you called my luck over to your side?
[13:18] Was
Who do you think I am?
[13:22] Aka
He's right.
[13:24] oug
Huh?
[13:26] Aka
Washizu is a man who built his life on winning.
[13:30] Aka
You won't call his luck away that easily.
[13:37] oug
Akagi...
[13:40] Yasu
Then what are you going to do?
[13:45] Aka
Just watch.
SIGN Second Game
SIGN South Hand 4
[14:07] oug
There's a 9,200 point difference
between them in this last hand.
[14:12] oug
I doubt Akagi is going to
deal into Washizu's hand,
[14:15] oug
but what really scares me is
Washizu getting a mangan tsumo,
[14:19] oug
or Suzuki playing into his hand
and making it a haneman.
[14:23] oug
So long as that doesn't happen, Akagi can win.
[14:29] oug
It's so-so.
[14:31] oug
I can't say it's the best hand,
[14:32] oug
but depending on his draws,
he could win quickly.
[14:35] oug
The problem is Washizu.
[14:40] oug
He's got a lot of black tiles,
but his hand doesn't look good.
[14:43] oug
Looks like we basically have this.
[14:46] oug
You can do this, Akagi!
[14:50] oug
Huh? What's going on?
[14:53] oug
There's nothing particularly worrisome here.
[14:56] oug
That could barely be a mangan hand, let alone...
[15:02] oug
The dora is the west wind!
[15:04] oug
And since Washizu is the west player,
it's worth more for him now!
[15:08] oug
If he calls that, he's already
guaranteed a mangan.
[15:11] oug
And he might actually have more than one.
[15:13] oug
He might have a pair.
[15:16] oug
So how should we consider
this west wind in Akagi's hand?
[15:21] oug
If Washizu has two west winds,
then it's preventing a concealed triplet.
[15:26] oug
If he only has one,
[15:27] oug
then Akagi's holding on to
Washizu's single wait for a second.
[15:32] oug
Either way, one false move
[15:34] oug
with this west wind will end up costing his life.
[15:39] oug
He won't be able deal it so easily.
[15:44] oug
Does he have no choice but to keep it?
[15:47] oug
That extremely limits what
Akagi can do with his own hand.
[15:51] oug
This west wind is a real demon.
[15:55] oug
Maybe he should dump it as soon as possible.
[15:58] oug
But should Washizu already
have two west winds,
[16:02] oug
that would be the absolute worst move.
[16:04] oug
A folly that would allow Washizu
to call his own wind, and the dora.
[16:08] oug
It would be an irreversible error.
[16:10] oug
I can't imagine anything worse.
[16:13] oug
What are you going to do, Akagi?
[16:22] oug
Of course not.
[16:25] oug
There's no reason to discard the
west wind right off the bat.
[16:28] oug
It's not too late to discard the west wind
after he's observed Washizu for a while.
[16:35] Was
Chi.
[16:45] Was
Pon!
[16:46] oug
What?
[16:49] oug
This can't be...
[16:51] oug
In seconds, his hand turned into a green dragon
honitsu with two dora, worth five han.
[16:55] oug
It's entirely possible to take
the lead with a mangan tsumo.
[17:00] oug
There's no way...
[17:01] oug
I don't think he's in tenpai yet, but still...
[17:07] oug
Akagi can't discard that west wind now!
[17:10] oug
If he does and Washizu calls it,
[17:12] oug
he'd have a green dragon, west wind
honitsu with three dora. A haneman!
[17:17] oug
He wouldn't even need a tsumo.
[17:19] oug
Having Suzuki deal into his hand
would be enough to take the lead.
[17:23] oug
If that happens, Akagi will die.
[17:27] oug
From the starting hands, I was sure
we'd make an easy getaway, but now...
[17:32] oug
It's like he looked up and
death is right behind him.
[17:37] oug
How can you still be so calm?!
[17:44] (Flashback) Aka
This is where the abnormal is normal.
[17:53] (Flashback) oug
To begin with, betting one's life on
a Mahjong game is already abnormal.
[17:59] (Flashback) oug
Which means that in this abnormal world,
[18:02] (Flashback) oug
the abnormal is normal.
[18:04] (Flashback) oug
That's the right instinct.
[18:06] (Flashback) oug
Is that why you can keep so calm?
[18:08] (Flashback) Aka
To continue playing in this
kind of extreme situation,
[18:13] (Flashback) Aka
being able to maintain your
concentration is your lifeline.
[18:20] (Flashback) oug
So thinking he's safe from a mangan hand
[18:22] (Flashback) oug
just because you had your blood
transfused back into you
[18:24] (Flashback) oug
was the wrong way of thinking, then.
[18:28] (Flashback) aka
That would mean one didn't mind
dealing into another's hand.
[18:31] (Flashback) aka
In which case, your determination
to read your opponents completely
[18:35] (Flashback) aka
in every situation would deteriorate.
[18:37] (Flashback) oug
I guess you're right.
[18:39] (Flashback) oug
You'd start saying "probably,"
[18:41] (Flashback) oug
and being satisfied with
90% certainty and a rough idea
[18:45] (Flashback) oug
of your opponent's hand.
[18:47] (Flashback) oug
Playing Mahjong like that leads to
failure at the most crucial moment.
[18:52] (Flashback) oug
Both foresight and determination deteriorate.
[18:57] (Flashback) Aka
Impurities will start to filter
into the thought process.
[19:01] (Flashback) oug
Impurities?
[19:04] (Flashback) Aka
Fear.
[19:06] (Flashback) oug
Fear?
[19:08] (Flashback) Aka
If you relax even for a moment,
it will make its way in.
[19:12] (Flashback) Aka
Fear herds people towards the easier path,
[19:19] (Flashback) Aka
and then devours them.
[19:25] oug
I knew that, and yet,
[19:27] oug
I was naïve enough to consider
transferring his blood back.
[19:31] oug
A heart that pursues safety is a demon.
[19:37] oug
Pursuing safety and finding a temporary
haven will relax your mind for a while.
[19:43] oug
This relaxation is what's bad.
[19:47] oug
In fact, since I was so certain of Akagi's victory,
[19:51] oug
this predicament has me all the more shaken.
[19:56] oug
On this point, Akagi's composure is unwavering.
[20:01] oug
He's most likely not making any
shallow reads of Washizu's hand.
[20:06] oug
Yes or no.
[20:09] oug
Black or white...
[20:15] oug
Wait a second.
[20:17] oug
Since Akagi didn't discard that west
wind, and kept it in his hand...
[20:24] oug
That means he assumes Washizu has
not just one, but two west winds?!
[20:33] oug
Oh, no!
[20:34] oug
That's terrible!
[20:36] oug
He no longer needs a tsumo to take the lead.
[20:38] oug
He's all clear for a haneman!
[20:40] oug
Which means...
[20:41] oug
annihilation!
[20:49] Was
All right.
[20:51] Was
I've got you now.
[20:53] Was
One more step and I'll kill you.
[20:56] Was
Boy...
[20:58] Was
Tremble before me.
[21:08] oug
His hand advanced again.
[21:14] Was
Pon.
[21:17] oug
And again...
[21:26] oug
Now he's discarding circles.
[21:29] oug
It's no use.
[21:30] oug
At this rate, we won't even
last until Akagi's next draw.
[21:34] oug
If Suzuki draws a west wind now, it's all over.
[21:41] oug
Please, no...
[21:52] oug
We've survived.
[21:59] oug
But it's still hopeless.
[22:03] oug
If Akagi was at least in tenpai,
[22:06] oug
he might be able to sneak through
without discarding the west wind.
[22:09] oug
But he's still two tiles from tenpai.
[22:12] oug
And he's still working on
getting rid of his honor tiles.
[22:15] oug
We'll have to rely on Yasuoka for this one.
[22:20] oug
Yasuoka's also two tiles from tenpai.
[22:26] oug
Is praying all we can do?
[22:29] oug
Pray that our opponent keeps
drawing useless tiles?
[22:50] oug
He'll die.
[22:52] oug
One misstep and that
west wind will end it all.
[22:56] oug
Akagi's going to be killed.
[23:06] Nar
At this point of the game,
the west wind Suzuki drew
[23:10] Nar
was like a weapon threatening
to take Akagi's life.
[23:15] Nar
Should Washizu have a tenpai hand like this,
[23:20] Nar
he could have Suzuki discard the west wind...
[23:24] (Flashback) was
Pon.
[23:24] nar
...then switch to a naked wait,
[23:27] nar
and have Suzuki immediately
play that tile into his hand again.
[23:33] (Flashback) Was
Ron.
[23:38] Nar
With this,
[23:39] Nar
he'd have a green dragon, west wind
honitsu with three dora. A haneman.
[23:43] Nar
His hand may also like this.
[23:48] Nar
With a chanta tenpai, he would have
once again called on the west wind...
SIGN Chanta - Hand with a terminal (1 or 9) or honor tile in each set.
[23:54] (Flashback) Was
Pon.
[23:56] Nar
...then switch to a naked
wait on the 9 of characters,
[24:02] Nar
and have Suzuki deal it into his hand.
[24:05] (Flashback) Was
Ron.
[24:10] Nar
That would be a green dragon, west wind
chanta with three dora, a haneman.
[24:15] Nar
He would retake the lead.
[24:18] oug
If the west wind comes out now,
[24:21] oug
Akagi will lose his life and I'll lose an arm.
[24:25] oug
We'll lose all the money, too.
[24:27] oug
Total annihilation!
[24:30] oug
If the west wind comes out now...
[24:58] oug
We're saved.
[25:01] ---
All right.
[25:02] oug
Now is the time to get rid of your west wind.
[25:05] oug
If Washizu couldn't call on it now,
it means his hand isn't ready for it.
[25:10] oug
Now is the time to get rid of it!
[25:16] oug
No!
[25:18] oug
Why didn't you discard
the west wind, the dora?!
[25:20] oug
It's the shackle that's been
binding you this whole time!
[25:24] oug
If you wait another turn,
[25:26] oug
then it's entirely feasible that
Washizu will change his wait!
[25:30] oug
For instance, if he didn't
have a honitsu already,
[25:32] oug
but his hand looked like this instead...
[25:37] oug
If he draws the 7 of bamboo,
[25:38] oug
he can switch to a double pon wait
for the west wind and 7 of bamboo.
[25:42] oug
Once that happens, you won't be able
to discard the west wind anymore.
[25:45] oug
With a green dragon, west wind,
three dora direct hit, he'd take the lead.
[25:49] oug
There's no way you could discard it.
[25:51] oug
If you think of that,
[25:53] oug
wasn't this your only opportunity
to get rid of the west wind?
[25:56] oug
So why didn't you?
[26:00] oug
Wait.
[26:03] oug
Is it possible that Akagi thinks
[26:05] oug
Washizu has a single wait on a dora?
[26:08] oug
Is that why he won't discard his west wind?
[26:21] (Flashback) Was
Ron.
[26:23] (Flashback) Was
Green dragon honitsu, two dora.
[26:25] (Flashback) Was
Mangan.
[26:28] oug
There's a 9,200 point gap between them.
[26:31] oug
A tile dealt by his underling won't be enough.
[26:34] oug
But Akagi, if you play into his
hand, it's a different story.
[26:39] oug
You'd be easily overtaken and
end up 6,800 points behind.
[26:44] oug
Is that why you're wavering?
[26:55] oug
Tenpai, an iipeikou hand with
a closed 2 of characters wait.
[26:59] oug
But to get there, he needs to discard it.
[27:03] oug
Akagi is wavering.
[27:06] oug
He's wavering on the chance that Washizu
is waiting on that single west wind.
[27:10] oug
If he has a single west wind wait,
[27:11] oug
he'll have a green dragon honitsu
with two dora, a mangan.
[27:14] oug
He would overturn Akagi's lead.
[27:16] oug
It's not a tile he can discard.
[27:18] oug
But if Washizu has two west winds
and is waiting on something else,
[27:24] oug
keeping the west wind in his hand will
cause a fatal stall in Akagi's game.
[27:28] oug
If Akagi doesn't get into tenpai soon,
[27:30] oug
he'll lose even that faint chance he has now.
[27:34] oug
Is it a single wait? A pair?
[27:36] oug
Will he discard it? Will he keep it?
[27:38] oug
Which will it be?
[27:39] oug
Akagi!
[27:56] Was
That's just fine.
[28:04] Was
Relax.
[28:10] oug
Say what you want.
[28:11] oug
Discarding that west wind here was huge.
[28:15] oug
And now he's in tenpai.
[28:17] oug
Iipeikou, with a closed wait
on the 2 of characters.
[28:19] oug
Getting it from Yasuoka would work.
[28:21] oug
Now it's just a question of
who gets the tile faster.
[28:25] Nar
Of course, Washizu is currently in tenpai.
[28:29] Nar
It just happened to be that the tile he
was waiting for was a 2 of characters.
[28:34] Nar
The same wait as Akagi's.
[28:36] Nar
At first glance, it might seem like their
chances of winning are the same,
[28:42] Nar
but that couldn't be further from the truth.
[28:45] Nar
Akagi can only win with this 2 of characters,
[28:50] Nar
but Washizu can use either that or the dora,
the west wind, to change his hand.
[28:56] Nar
If his underling deals into his hand right away,
[28:58] Nar
his hand's potential increases.
[29:00] Nar
For instance, if he draws the 1 of characters
[29:03] Nar
and changes his wait to this double pon wait,
[29:06] Nar
he can win by Suzuki dealing
the west wind into his hand.
[29:11] (Flashback) Was
Ron.
[29:12] Nar
Alternatively,
[29:14] Nar
if Suzuki draws that 1 of characters...
[29:18] (Flashback) was
Pon.
[29:20] nar
He can just call the west wind and then
have Suzuki deal that into his hand.
[29:26] (Flashback) Was
Ron.
[29:30] Nar
Either would be enough for
the haneman upset with the
[29:33] Nar
green dragon, west wind
chanta, with three dora.
[29:36] Nar
On top of that, if you stick with the
situation where Washizu calls the west wind,
[29:43] Nar
then if Washizu draws any honor or circle
tiles near the ones in Suzuki's hand,
[29:49] Nar
he can win from those, too.
[29:53] Nar
Basically, once he draws one,
[29:56] Nar
he can keep it in his hand
and discard a character tile.
[30:01] Nar
Then he just has to call Suzuki's west wind
[30:04] Nar
and have Suzuki deal into his single wait.
[30:09] Nar
That will become the haneman
hand that will overtake Akagi.
[30:15] Nar
Under the premise that he calls the
west wind for this haneman win,
[30:21] Nar
Washizu has a total of eight
different tiles he can wait on.
[30:24] Nar
On the other hand, Akagi only has one.
[30:27] Nar
Only this closed 2 of characters.
[30:30] Nar
Akagi is at a huge disadvantage.
[30:37] oug
This is a chance to change his hand!
[30:39] oug
What will he do?
[30:41] oug
Will he stick with his closed
wait for the 2 of characters?
[30:46] oug
Or discard the 3 of characters to
get a 1, 4, 7 of characters wait?
[30:54] oug
Or discard the 1 of characters
to get a 3, 6 of characters wait?
[30:59] oug
No matter what he does,
[31:01] oug
Yasuoka doesn't have the
winning tile to give him.
[31:04] oug
So he should discard the 3 of characters,
[31:07] oug
and go for the more favorable
1, 4, 7 of characters wait?
[31:10] oug
Or will he stick with his closed wait
for the 2 of characters and the iipeikou
[31:14] oug
that doesn't require declaring riichi?
[31:18] oug
In any case, he should just
stay in tenpai for now.
[31:28] Aka
Riichi.
[31:30] oug
No!
[31:31] oug
Why would he declare riichi now?!
[31:35] oug
Just by putting down a riichi wager,
[31:38] oug
the gap between him and Washizu
is decreased by 2,000 points.
[31:41] oug
It'll shrink from 9,200 points to just 7,200.
[31:46] oug
If he does that, Washizu only needs
the 8,000 points from a mangan
[31:50] oug
to win with a tile dealt by Suzuki.
[31:53] oug
He gave up the restriction requiring
12,000 points for a haneman hand.
[31:57] oug
That is a bad idea, any way you look at it.
[32:01] Yasu
A riichi right now makes no sense.
[32:05] Yasu
Surely you must have worked that out already?
[32:10] oug
It'd be one thing if he had
discarded the 3 of characters
[32:13] oug
for a 1, 4, 7 of characters wait,
[32:15] oug
but waiting for the 3 and 6 of characters?
[32:18] oug
That's the worst choice he could have made.
[32:21] oug
Akagi!
[32:23] oug
This is abnormal.
[32:25] (Flashback) Aka
This is where the abnormal is normal.
[32:29] oug
Akagi, don't tell me...
[32:33] oug
Did you have some kind of premonition
in this extreme, abnormal situation?
[32:37] oug
You think Yasuoka is going to draw a 3 or 6?
[32:42] oug
If that's your reasoning, I can sort
of buy it, but could that really...
[32:48] oug
Is Yasuoka really going to draw it?
[33:18] Was
You've dug your own grave, Akagi.
[33:23] Was
Since you declared riichi, I thought the
cop would deal straight into your hand.
[33:30] Was
But that is not the case,
[33:34] Was
so what does this mean?
[33:38] Was
You buckled under the pressure of the match,
[33:40] Was
and stumbled for me on your own accord?
[33:45] Was
With that riichi wager, our point
difference is now 7,200 points.
[33:51] Was
If Suzuki deals into my hand,
a mangan will be enough.
[33:55] Was
If I get a tsumo, a 5,200 point hand
[33:58] Was
plus the 2,600 points
I'd get from you as dealer
[34:01] Was
would give me the lead.
[34:03] Was
My advantage over you was just
too much, too overwhelming.
[34:08] Was
Maybe you thought I would end
the match in the next turn,
[34:12] Was
so you decided to make it all or nothing.
[34:17] Was
You figured that if you'll die anyway,
[34:19] Was
you wanted to die while
running towards victory,
[34:23] Was
so you wagered your last
ray of hope on that riichi.
[34:30] Was
But that riichi actually opened the final door.
[34:38] Was
The door that will drag you to your death...
[34:43] Was
The door to hell.
[34:52] Was
Pon.
[34:53] Was
I no longer need a haneman.
[34:56] Was
A mangan with the green dragon,
west wind, and three dora will suffice.
[35:02] Was
This decides it.
[35:04] Was
Now I win.
[35:10] oug
No!
[35:11] oug
If he deals into his hand, it's over!
[35:21] Was
I won.
[35:23] Aka
Ron.
[35:26] Aka
Too bad.
[35:28] Aka
It's a head bump.
[35:37] Was
A 3, 6 of characters wait?
[35:41] Was
With that hand, you could have
[35:43] Was
stayed with the closed wait for the
2 of characters, for an iipeikou.
[35:47] Was
Or a 1, 4, 7 of characters wait would
have given you more possibilities.
[35:52] Was
Yet you chose the 3, 6 of characters wait?
[35:59] Aka
You were getting all worried,
so you tried to force an ending.
[36:04] Aka
If you'd waited another two or
three turns, you could've won.
[36:06] Aka
What are you scared of?
[36:10] Aka
You're actually quite the
coward, Washizu Iwao.
[36:19] Was
Boy...
[36:25] Nar
The second game is over.
[36:28] Nar
Akagi seemed to be in a tight spot,
but at the end, he has 43,200 points.
[36:35] Nar
Washizu has 32,700 points.
[36:39] Nar
Akagi wins again, by a margin
of over 10,000 points.
SIGN End of Game Two
SIGN points
SIGN Washizu
SIGN points
SIGN Akagi
SIGN Wager
[36:47] Nar
With the ranking bonus and wager,
SIGN Wager
Ranking Bonus
SIGN Ranking
Bonus
[36:51] Nar
Akagi is 50,500 points ahead of Washizu.
SIGN points
SIGN points
[36:59] nar
Akagi also earns 16 million yen in
bonus payments from this game,
[37:04] nar
giving him a total of 66 million yen.
[37:08] nar
Combined with his earnings
from the first game,
[37:11] nar
his winnings already exceed 100 million yen.
[37:18] Yasu
You're sure you don't want your blood back?
[37:19] Aka
Stop nagging me.
[37:21] Yasu
Whoa, hold on.
[37:24] Yasu
Akagi, why? Why do you insist
on refusing the transfusion?
[37:29] Yasu
Doing that won't benefit you at all.
[37:33] Aka
That's not entirely true.
[37:35] Yasu
Huh?
[37:37] Aka
That last hand, for example.
[37:39] Aka
Not returning any of my blood
is what led me to victory.
[37:44] Yasu
Led you?
[37:47] Aka
Yeah.
[37:49] Aka
This last hand, my starting tiles were horrible.
[37:53] Aka
That was because there was one tile
among them I could never discard...
[37:59] Aka
This west wind.
[38:02] Aka
Not only was it the dora,
it was also Washizu's wind.
[38:06] Aka
That one tile froze my entire hand.
[38:09] Aka
The possible wins were extremely limited.
[38:13] Aka
It wasn't something I could
solve on my own power.
[38:17] Aka
I needed Washizu to make a mistake.
[38:19] Yasu
A mistake?
[38:21] Aka
Yeah.
[38:24] Aka
Well, the calls he made weren't a big problem,
[38:30] Aka
but after his 1 of circles
pon in the seventh turn,
[38:34] Aka
he discarded a 3 of circles,
an obvious mistake.
[38:38] (Flashback) Was
Pon.
[38:39] Aka
Washizu called on this 1 of
circles to get into tenpai,
[38:44] Aka
but instead of this chanta with limited waits,
[38:46] Aka
keeping the 1 of circles pair and
the 3 of circles to go for a honitsu
[38:50] Aka
would've given him a much
higher chance of winning.
[38:54] Aka
That was a bad move.
[38:56] Aka
There was no need to rush,
but he ended up rushing anyway.
[39:01] Aka
He prioritized his current
hand over everything else.
[39:06] Aka
In the end, he was being pressured by
[39:11] Aka
my refusal to transfuse blood.
[39:14] Yasu
I see.
[39:17] Aka
As a result, that mistake came to be.
[39:20] Aka
His rushing is what gave me a chance.
[39:26] Aka
It gave me a chance to discard the west
wind that I couldn't discard until then.
[39:32] Aka
That one discard made my
hand start to progress.
[39:39] Aka
His trump card, the west wind, lost its power,
[39:43] Aka
and instead, mine gained power.
[39:48] Aka
After that, it clouded Washizu's eyes.
[39:50] Aka
It became an imaginary force.
[39:53] Yasu
An imaginary force?
[39:56] Yasu
You just happened to have a
west wind that you couldn't discard.
[40:01] oug
Wait a second.
[40:02] oug
I also have a few questions
about that west wind.
[40:05] oug
I'll start from the top.
[40:07] oug
First, tell me about the west wind
dora you had in your starting hand.
[40:11] oug
Obviously you knew Washizu had
one dora west wind in his hand.
[40:15] oug
It was a dora and also his wind,
so of course it was difficult to discard.
[40:23] oug
On top of that, if Washizu already
had a pair of west winds,
[40:27] oug
the moment he called it, he'd have a mangan.
[40:30] oug
Of course you couldn't discard it.
[40:35] oug
On the other hand, if he only had one,
[40:38] oug
you should have discarded it before
[40:40] oug
he had a chance to collect any more.
[40:42] oug
You talk about it like you were already
certain he had a pair of west winds.
[40:46] oug
How could you have known that?
[40:48] oug
We're talking about the starting hands,
before anyone had discarded anything.
[40:52] ---
Ougi-san.
[40:55] Aka
He had already discarded many tiles.
[40:58] oug
What?
[41:00] Aka
I had two East-South matches'
[41:02] Aka
worth of tiles to figure out his discard patterns.
[41:06] Aka
You can actually see quite a lot,
even if that's just that
[41:09] Aka
there will be some rough waters ahead.
[41:14] Aka
Taking into account that feeling,
Washizu's own luck,
[41:19] Aka
and his natural ability at winning,
[41:22] Aka
I knew this last hand wouldn't
end without a fight.
[41:27] Aka
With that in mind, I wasn't surprised
that the dora was his wind.
[41:40] Aka
Washizu had one of those tiles, and I
got one of them in my starting hand.
[41:46] Aka
Which means Washizu had luck, and I did not.
[41:51] Aka
This was no mere coincidence.
[41:54] Aka
The heavens literally sent
this tile to help Washizu win.
[42:01] Aka
Had the hand progressed normally,
[42:07] Aka
Washizu would have won.
[42:12] Aka
Had I discarded it and had he
called on it, he'd have a mangan.
[42:14] Aka
There was nothing more to do.
[42:15] Aka
Still, if I just held on to it,
[42:18] Aka
I wouldn't be able to move. It'd be my death.
[42:21] Aka
My only hope for escape was
a misstep from Washizu.
[42:28] (Flashback) Was
Chi.
[42:30] (Flashback) Was
Pon!
[42:30] Aka
Like what happened.
[42:31] Aka
Being in tenpai sounds great, but calling
too many tiles restricted his hand.
[42:32] (Flashback) ---
Pon.
[42:36] Aka
I had no choice but to wait until
he couldn't move any further,
[42:39] Aka
and then to discard it.
[42:41] Aka
Just discarding it wasn't enough.
[42:43] Aka
I needed to set up the situation to discard it.
[42:47] Aka
If I screwed up the order, it was over.
[42:53] Oug
Wait.
[42:54] Oug
If you knew he had a pair of
west winds, that makes no sense.
[42:58] Oug
When Suzuki discarded a west wind,
Washizu didn't call on it,
[43:01] Oug
so why didn't you discard it right then?
[43:15] Oug
In that situation, giving Washizu a tile
to call could've been unavoidable.
[43:19] Oug
So shouldn't you have
discarded the west wind?
[43:22] Oug
Washizu's next draw could
have let him switch to a
[43:24] Oug
double pon wait for the
west wind and anything else.
[43:27] Oug
At that point, you couldn't have
discarded the west wind.
[43:30] Oug
So shouldn't you have just discarded it up-front?
[43:34] Oug
I don't understand why you
didn't get rid of it then...
[43:37] Oug
The only way I could rationalize you not
discarding the west wind at that point
[43:42] Oug
was that you were worried you'd
be dealing into a mangan hand.
[43:46] Aka
Right.
[43:47] Aka
That's what I wanted Washizu to think.
[43:50] Aka
I wanted to create that illusion.
[43:53] yas
The imaginary force...
[43:58] Aka
If I'd hesitated,
[43:59] Aka
he could've gone to a double pon
wait, one being the west wind.
[44:02] Aka
I needed to accept the risk
of that additional turn.
[44:05] Aka
Otherwise, all my later moves
would have borne no fruit.
[44:12] Oug
So I guess I bought into that illusion, too.
[44:17] Aka
I deliberately played as if I was hesitating.
[44:22] Aka
Ougi-san, those who can see get to choose.
[44:27] Aka
Just by discarding a tile one turn
later, you can take full control.
[44:32] Aka
If luck isn't with you, that's all you can do.
[44:38] Oug
I was right.
[44:39] Oug
You're not normal.
[44:50] Oug
Manipulating your opponent's thought
process... You're like a devil yourself.
[45:08] Was
I can't believe that kid was
manipulating a man like me.
[45:18] Guy
Manipulating?
[45:20] Was
That riichi.
[45:23] Was
Before I called on Suzuki's west wind,
[45:27] Was
he declared his riichi because
he had fully read my hand.
[45:31] Was
He did it to lead me towards that green
dragon, west wind, three dora hand.
[45:37] Guy
You're right.
[45:38] Guy
Looking back now, it was
clearly an unnatural riichi.
[45:42] Was
With that riichi wager,
[45:45] Was
he deliberately lowered the
requirement for me to take the lead
[45:50] Was
from a haneman to a mangan,
luring me toward it.
[45:55] Guy
I see.
[45:58] Was
I was lured in by that obviously contrived riichi.
[46:09] Yasu
Akagi, can I ask you one more thing?
[46:15] Yasu
Even if you had figured out the west wind,
what about the rest of his hand?
[46:23] Yasu
Of course, you knew that he had a
single wait for the 3 of characters.
[46:28] Yasu
And since we're there already,
doesn't that also mean you knew he had
[46:32] Yasu
two west winds and a closed wait
for the 2 of characters before?
[46:38] Yasu
How could you know that?
[46:41] Aka
Isn't it simple?
[46:42] Yasu
I also figured that he couldn't have a
circles honitsu since Suzuki
[46:46] Yasu
didn't deal any of his many
circle tiles into Washizu's hand.
[46:50] Yasu
So I guessed it was a chanta.
That much I got.
[46:53] Yasu
But how did you know what
he was waiting on?
[46:56] Aka
If you got that far already,
the answer is right in front of you.
[47:00] Yasu
Huh?
[47:04] Aka
This time, instead of trying
to read Washizu's hand,
[47:09] Aka
you just need to take a good look at
Suzuki's hand to reveal Washizu's tiles.
[47:15] Aka
Then all you have to do is see
what Suzuki's hand looked like.
[47:20] Aka
Over half of his tiles were circle and honor tiles.
[47:23] Aka
They were the pawns to deal
into Washizu's honitsu hand.
[47:26] Aka
The rest were for a chanta hand.
[47:28] (Flashback) Was
Pon!
[47:32] Aka
What's more, after Suzuki let
Washizu call the west wind,
[47:37] Aka
he didn't deal the 1 or 9 of bamboo,
or the 9 of characters.
[47:42] Aka
That meant any waits involving
these tiles were out.
[47:48] Aka
Meaning the only remaining
possibilities for a chanta
[47:51] Aka
were around the 1 of characters.
[47:54] Yasu
But couldn't it also have been
a 1, 4 or 6, 9 of bamboo wait?
[47:56] Aka
No.
[47:58] Aka
He'd already discarded all
the tiles around the 4 and 6.
[48:02] Aka
He wouldn't throw away a win
like that after all those pon calls.
[48:07] Aka
So in the end, you could assume his wait
[48:13] Aka
was for either a 1 and 2 of characters
or 1 and 3 of characters.
[48:18] Aka
But since I had the opaque
2 of characters in my hand,
[48:23] Aka
it meant Washizu had to be in a closed
wait for the 1 and 3 of characters.
[48:29] Yasu
So why did Suzuki keep the 3 of characters?
[48:32] Aka
Right. It seemed like a pointless tile at a glance,
[48:35] Aka
but Washizu had a 3 of
characters left in his hand.
[48:38] Aka
That means it's a tile Washizu could
definitely use for a single wait.
[48:43] Aka
Considering that,
[48:46] Aka
if I were to declare riichi, as I did,
[48:50] Aka
a mangan would be enough
for him to take the lead.
[48:53] Aka
A green dragon kan could yield new
dora that would give him a haneman,
[48:58] Aka
even with just the 3 of characters.
[49:02] Aka
That's why Suzuki kept it.
[49:08] Aka
But you know, Yasuoka-san...
[49:11] Yasu
What?
[49:12] Aka
What was vital to see this time
was not Washizu's hand,
[49:16] Aka
but his state of mind.
[49:21] Aka
Whether or not Washizu would be lured toward
[49:25] Aka
my 3 of characters strategy,
as planned, once I declared riichi
[49:31] Aka
was the vital point.
[49:34] Ouh
You did a wonderful job manipulating him.
[49:39] Aka
Do you know why it worked?
[49:46] Aka
Because Washizu was starved for victory.
[49:50] Oug
Starved?
[49:52] Aka
Washizu won his way through life.
[49:56] Aka
For him, victory was always certain.
[49:58] Aka
He knows well the difference
between victory and an advantage.
[50:03] Oug
The difference between
victory and an advantage?
[50:06] Aka
Having an advantage has
little meaning by itself.
[50:08] Aka
It only has meaning once you have won.
[50:12] Aka
Successful people know that intimately,
which is why they all strive to win.
[50:18] Oug
Damn.
[50:20] Oug
So even when you're out of luck,
[50:22] Oug
you're someone who can pull through anyway.
[50:33] Aka
You can't control luck.
[50:35] Aka
But you can control thought patterns.
[50:40] Aka
The thought patterns of successful
people starved for victory.
[50:59] Guy
Washizu-sama, what shall we do?
[51:02] Was
About what?
[51:04] Guy
Will you continue into the
third game, or will you stop?
[51:09] Guy
When I see that man, I see
something endlessly foreboding...
[51:14] Guy
Something truly disturbing.
[51:16] Guy2
Me, too.
[51:17] Guy
I believe that exercising
prudence is a viable option.
[51:21] Guy
Should you stop now, you will have
lost only a little over 100 million.
[51:28] Was
You're telling me to run away?
[51:33] Guy
But, sir...
[51:35] Was
How dare you?!
[51:39] Was
You're telling someone who has built their
life around victory to admit defeat?!
[51:46] Guy
Washizu-sama—
[51:47] Was
I will not!
[51:48] Was
It will not happen!
[52:01] Was
I will kill him with my own hands.
SIGN Washizu
SIGN Lost cash: 118.5 Million Yen
SIGN Akagi
SIGN Lost blood:
SIGN Washizu.
SIGN Lost cash: 118.5 million yen.
SIGN Akagi.
SIGN Lost blood: 1,100 cc.
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