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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.