Akagi
Tokyo, 1958. A man seriously gambles at a mahjong parlor. He's playing against members of the Ryuzaki yakuza clan. If he loses, he must pay his debt through his own life insurance – truly a game of life and death. With his own existence at stake, he can only play passively, and the game comes to a head. Suddenly, a mysterious boy appears. His name is Akagi, a thirteen-year-old kid. The man senses a strong aura around the youth and decides to have Akagi substitute for him in the next round.
- Season 1
- 1 - The Genius Who Descended Into the Darkness
- 2 - The Awakening of Talent
- 3 - The Sinister Scheme
- 4 - A True Outlaw
- 5 - The Treacherous Tse Ii Men
- 6 - The Picaro's Talent
- 7 - An Innocent Devil
- 8 - The Sign of Rebirth
- 9 - The Authenticity of Genius
- 10 - The Announcement of the Counterattack
- 11 - The Foundation for Despair
- 12 - The Magic of Coincidence
- 13 - The Path of the Storm
- 14 - A New Chapter of the Rakshasa
- 15 - The Witching Hour
- 16 - The Mahjong Game of Destruction
- 17 - The Proof of Genius
- 18 - The Cursed Tiles
- 19 - The Confusion of the Demon
- 20 - Hope and Folly
- 21 - A Ray of Illusion
- 22 - The Shackles of Artifice
- 23 - The Power of Brute Luck
- 24 - The Will of the Demons
- 25 - The Temptation of Murderous Intent
- 26 - Madness and Darkness and...
Season 1
1 - The Genius Who Descended Into the Darkness
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[01:14] nar
Thirteen years had passed since
the end of the Pacific War.
[01:19] nar
Japan had overcome the postwar disarray
[01:22] ---
and was about to enter a
period of rapid growth.
SIGN Protect Life
SIGN Nagashima joins the Giants
[01:27] nar
But in the underworld beneath
that sheen, where evil spirits lurk,
[01:33] ---
a legend was about to be born.
SIGN The world's tallest broadcasting tower
SIGN Episode 1
SIGN The Genius Who Descended
Into the Darkness
[01:42] nar
The legend of the man who would
[01:45] ---
soon be called man from
the godly realm and
[01:48] ---
who would rule the underworld.
[01:56] tv
Typhoon number 21 will...
[01:58] nan
What I wanted...
[02:01] nan
was change.
[02:04] nan
The kind of change that would
turn everything around.
[02:10] nan
To the point of rebirth.
[02:18] ryu
Nangou-san, that's it. Ron.
SIGN Ron - Winning a hand with an opponent's discard.
SIGN Mangan - A hand worth 8,000 points (12,000 for the dealer.)
[02:21] ryu
Mangan.
SIGN Nangou
[02:25] nan
My debts from the stock market,
my losses from gambling...
[02:29] ---
Everything I touched, I messed up.
[02:31] nan
And tonight...
[02:34] nan
The game of Mahjong I am
playing to erase my debt,
[02:37] ---
I am losing, as well.
[02:39] nan
When this is over, I'll have
to repay a huge debt.
[02:44] nan
The life insurance I signed
up for last month...
[02:47] ---
the beneficiary is the mistress
of this man, Ryuuzaki.
SIGN Ryuuzaki
SIGN - Next Turn -
[02:54] nan
They've cornered me.
[02:58] nan
I can't deal into his hand any more.
[03:02] nan
This one should be safe!
[03:06] ryu
Ron!
[03:21] nan
Calm down!
[03:24] nan
I've got do something. Anything!
SIGN - South Hand 3 -
[03:32] nan
My starting tiles are so bad,
they make me want to cry.
[03:37] nan
If I finish last in this East-South
match, I'm done for.
[03:41] nan
Please!
[03:46] nan
Nothing's happening!
[03:48] nan
Please, someone change this!
I don't care who does it.
[03:51] nan
This stagnant air...
Someone, please, mix up the flow!
[03:56] nan
I don't care who!
[03:58] nan
Even if it's the devil!
[04:09] ryu
Who's there?
[04:24] man
Who the hell are you?!
[04:27] man
Find somewhere else to hide from the rain!
[04:29] man
This isn't a place for kids!
[04:31] man
Go home already.
[04:33] nan
Wait! I invited that kid.
[04:38] nan
I told him to come check on me if
he didn't hear from me by midnight.
[04:45] nan
Of course, that was a lie.
[04:49] nan
I didn't know that kid.
[04:51] nan
All I wanted was a break.
[04:56] nan
A chance to turn the tide.
[04:59] nan
Look at them.
[05:01] nan
They all look deflated.
[05:04] nan
It's clear that the heat
of the game is fading.
[05:08] nan
The tide could still turn...
[05:13] nan
I have to somehow pull through and turn
it around in the next East-South match.
[05:18] nan
Hang in there!
[05:20] ---
Don't give up!
SIGN - South Hand 4 -
[05:23] nar
And on the eighth turn of South Hand 4,
[05:25] ---
an opportunity finally arises.
[05:34] nan
This is it!
[05:37] nan
I can discard the 5 of circles
and wait for a 1 or 4.
[05:39] nan
If I get the best case, 1 of circles,
SIGN Sanshoku - Same sequence (triplets) of all 3 suits. Chanta - Hand with a terminal (1 or 9) or honor tile in each set. Haneman - 1.5x mangan.
[05:41] ---
the red dragon, sanshoku, and chanta
will give me a haneman with one dora.
[05:45] nan
I could even take over the lead.
[05:50] nan
The problem is the riichi across from me.
SIGN Riichi - The player declares he is one tile away from winning and wagers 1,000 points for the chance to further increase his score.
[05:56] nan
I really want to discard the 5 of circles,
but it's pretty dangerous.
[06:02] nan
I can't push my luck here.
[06:04] nan
It'll end up a cheap, red dragon only hand...
[06:06] ---
but the 2 of circles is already a safe tile.
[06:09] nan
If I deal into his hand,
everything is over.
[06:15] aka
You'd survive if you only died.
[06:24] nan
Do you know how to play Mahjong, kid?
[06:27] aka
No, not at all.
[06:30] aka
But your spirit had died just now.
[06:33] aka
Your back shows you don't
have the strength to win.
[06:37] aka
You're just trying to survive.
[06:40] aka
That's the final thought pattern of gamblers
[06:42] ---
who have been on a losing streak.
[06:46] aka
You're just scared.
[06:59] nan
Damn it!
[07:00] nan
That kid's right.
[07:03] nan
How could I discard the
2 of circles with this hand?!
[07:07] nan
I don't know what I was thinking.
[07:09] nan
I'm gambling right now.
[07:12] nan
How can I win if I don't take any chances?
[07:17] nan
If I'm going to die anyway,
[07:19] ---
I might as well go out hitting hard!
[07:26] nan
It worked.
[07:27] nar
At that moment,
[07:29] ---
the largely ignored player to his
right was actually in tenpai.
SIGN Tenpai - One tile away from winning.
[07:34] nar
He was waiting for a green
dragon or a 2 of circles.
[07:36] nar
Had Nangou "fled" with the 2 of circles,
he would have dealt into his hand.
[07:40] nar
A trick of fate.
[07:43] nar
After that, the player to his
right draws a 1 of circles.
[07:45] nar
He could have kept it and
dealt the safe 2 of circles,
[07:50] ---
but he keeps going, aiming for a san ankou.
SIGN San ankou - Three concealed triplets.
[07:54] nan
Ron!
[07:59] nar
From that moment,
[08:01] ---
the pendulum of the game started
to slowly swing in Nangou's favor.
[08:08] nan
I took the lead.
[08:11] nan
I survived.
[08:27] nan
Kid, how old are you?
[08:31] aka
Thirteen.
[08:34] nan
You don't look it.
[08:36] nan
What's your name?
[08:37] aka
Akagi.
[08:40] ---
Akagi Shigeru.
[08:42] nan
What exactly did you do?
[08:44] nan
You're wandering around
on a stormy night like this,
[08:47] ---
waltzing into a Mahjong parlor
you know nothing about.
[08:50] nan
The only obvious thing is that
you're not a normal student.
[08:55] nan
And that sand on your shirt...
[08:59] nan
Been swimming in the
ocean this late at night?
[09:03] nan
I know.
[09:05] ---
You don't want to talk about it.
[09:08] nan
You probably walked the line
[09:09] ---
between life and death
before you came here.
[09:12] nan
I can sense it because I am
treading that line right now.
[09:19] nan
I mean, if I don't win tonight,
I'm gonna be killed.
[09:24] nan
Please, will you play the next
East-South match in my place?
[09:30] nan
I can feel that you have
what it takes to compete...
[09:36] ---
Zeal, luck, and heart.
[09:39] nan
You can make it across that line.
[09:53] nar
This is the beginning of
the legend Akagi Shigeru,
[09:57] nar
who will soon rock the foundation
of the underground Mahjong world.
[10:02] nar
His first time playing Mahjong.
[10:05] nar
Just five minutes before
the game started,
[10:09] nar
he was only taught the most
basic rules of Mahjong.
[10:12] nar
He doesn't know any yaku.
SIGN Yaku - Winning hand compositions.
[10:14] nar
He was less than a beginner.
[10:18] nar
As he plays, Akagi will grasp
Mahjong little by little.
[10:23] nar
That a hand in Mahjong
[10:25] nar
is made up of four melds of
three tiles, plus one pair.
SIGN Juntsu (Sequence) Koutsu (Triplet)
[10:29] nar
That it is a game where players
compete on the speed, composition,
SIGN 1 Han (Pinfu)
SIGN 2 Han (Sanshoku Doujun)
[10:32] ---
and points attributed to their hands.
SIGN 3 Han (Hon'iisou)
[10:34] nar
That it is usually best to avoid calling
SIGN Menzen
[10:36] ---
other players' tiles to build your hand.
SIGN Pon Chi
[10:39] nar
That the white, green, and red dragons
SIGN Riichi Wager 1,000 points
[10:41] ---
are useful tiles because a triplet
of either of them is worth 1 han.
[10:46] guy
Tsumo.
SIGN Tsumo - Declaring a winning hand on your draw.
[10:47] nar
That there is a special yaku called
chiitoitsu that consists of seven pairs.
[10:53] nar
By the end of the East round,
Akagi has lost 7,200 points.
[10:58] nar
He hasn't dealt into anybody's hand,
nor has he won himself.
[11:01] nar
Quite an ordinary outcome.
[11:03] nar
His talent, that will eventually earn him
[11:05] ---
the title of genius, is not yet apparent.
SIGN - South Hand 2 -
[11:08] nar
In South Hand 2, something happens.
[11:11] nan
Here it is!
[11:14] nan
The seed for a daisangen.
SIGN Daisangen - A yakuman hand with triplets of all 3 dragons (yakuman - 4x mangan)
[11:15] nan
He has the three pairs for it!
[11:22] nan
He can go for a daisangen with this hand.
[11:27] nan
If he pulls this off...
[11:31] nar
The first red dragon.
[11:34] nar
But Akagi lets it pass.
[11:37] nar
Akagi ignores the following
white and green dragons, as well.
[11:41] nar
He doesn't make his move.
[11:43] nar
He stays quiet.
[11:46] nar
Then comes the second...
[11:51] nan
Why?!
[11:53] nan
Now he can't do any better than a chiitoitsu!
[11:56] nan
It's over. He needed to call those tiles.
[12:00] nan
Even if you didn't know
what a daisangen was,
[12:03] ---
having three of each honor tile
gives you a beastly hand!
[12:07] nan
That much should be obvious!
[12:11] nan
I was crazy to put everything
into this kid's hands.
[12:15] nan
I'll have to play again myself starting
from the next East-South match.
[12:23] ryu
Someone's coming up the stairs.
[12:31] ryu
Who's coming here so late at night?
[12:35] guy
Yes, sir.
[12:39] guy
Who is it?
[12:41] pol
Excuse me for disturbing you
so late. It's the police.
[12:45] pol
There was a bit of an
incident earlier this evening.
[12:53] pol
It was a gang rivalry incident.
[12:56] pol
I think they call it a game of chicken?
[12:59] pol
Two cars head straight for
a cliff at full speed.
[13:03] pol
It's a game of reckless disregard for life
[13:06] ---
where the person who brakes first loses.
[13:12] pol
Well, while they were doing that,
[13:14] ---
they didn't brake in time,
[13:15] ---
so both cars ended up in the ocean.
[13:18] pol
One of the kids was brought to the
hospital with serious injuries,
[13:21] ---
but apparently the other one
[13:23] ---
swam to shore by himself
and fled the scene.
[13:26] pol
We received a report that he
came to this neighborhood.
[13:31] pol
That's why we came here
to ask some questions.
[13:35] ryu
A chicken game survivor.
[13:37] ---
No wonder I thought he was gutsy.
[13:40] guy
What should we do?
[13:42] ryu
Send them away.
[13:43] ryu
Having the cops here will be
inconvenient for us, as well.
[13:46] guy
Yes, sir.
[13:48] aka
Nangou-san.
[13:51] aka
Shall we make a deal?
[13:53] aka
The cops came here
because they had a lead,
[13:57] ---
so they probably won't leave.
[13:59] aka
They'll push their way
in here any minute now.
[14:02] aka
When that happens, all I need
is for our stories to match,
[14:05] ---
and for you to vouch for
my alibi and identity.
[14:08] nan
This damn kid. He's out of his mind.
[14:11] nan
Why should I do all that for him?
[14:14] nan
Gimme a break.
[14:16] nan
You can't make a deal if you
don't have something to offer!
[14:22] aka
But I have something.
SIGN Suu ankou - Four concealed triplets, a double yakuman when waiting for a single tile.
[14:27] nan
Suu ankou, daisangen,
waiting for a single west wind!
[14:30] nan
Impossible!
[14:32] nan
Just a moment ago, his hand was...
[14:36] nan
He swapped them!
[14:38] nan
He took them from the discard pile
[14:39] ---
while everybody's attention
was on the door earlier!
[14:42] nan
The one who should be most worried
[14:44] ---
about the police approaching
[14:46] ---
pulled off something like this...
[14:48] nan
This kid's got nerves like no other.
[14:52] nan
He's insane.
[14:54] nan
I can't believe it.
[15:05] nan
This brat!
[15:06] nan
But if he discards the red dragon,
my chance of winning is gone.
[15:13] nan
Oh, all right, kid.
[15:18] nan
I don't have the luxury of choice right now.
[15:21] nan
Do what you want.
[15:28] yas
You didn't make this easy on us, did you?
[15:31] guy
U-Uh...
[15:38] yas
There he is.
[15:42] yas
The kid we're looking for, right here.
[15:45] yas
Hey, kid.
[15:46] ---
You heard what we said, right?
[15:49] ryu
Damn, this is annoying.
[15:51] yas
You're the survivor, aren't you?
[15:55] nan
Detective,
[15:56] ---
you're mistaking him for someone else.
[15:58] nan
He's my older brother's kid.
[16:01] ---
I had to take him in for a while.
[16:03] nan
He's been here in this Mahjong
parlor since six last night.
[16:06] nan
With us. Right, Ryuuzaki-san?
[16:12] ryu
Ah, yeah, huh?
[16:15] nan
Ryuuzaki doesn't want the
cops snooping around, either.
[16:20] nan
He'll have no choice but to help us.
[16:23] yas
But we had some eye witnesses.
[16:27] yas
And there are footprints on the stairs.
[16:30] yas
Soaking wet footprints made
by that kid over there.
[16:35] aka
Detective, I made those when my uncle
[16:39] ---
sent me to go buy cigarettes.
[16:41] yas
In the middle of the night?
[16:43] aka
Yeah, I told him I couldn't go at his hour,
[16:47] aka
but he wouldn't take no for an answer.
[16:50] aka
He was also pretty irritated
because he'd been losing a lot.
[16:53] ---
Right?
[16:54] nan
Y-Yeah, that's right.
[16:57] aka
And, Detective,
[16:59] ---
would someone who did
something like that
[17:02] ---
be relaxing and playing Mahjong?
[17:04] aka
Even if he was, why should
the people here cover for him?
[17:11] aka
There's nothing for them
to gain from that.
[17:14] yas
I see.
[17:15] aka
So, shall we begin?
[17:19] aka
Your turn.
[17:20] guy
Oh, yeah.
[17:21] nan
He's good.
[17:23] ---
He made them resume the game while
their focus is still on the cops.
[17:28] nan
He's swiped an enormous amount
of tiles from the discard pile.
[17:31] nan
If you paid even a little bit
of attention, you'd notice.
[17:36] nan
That's why now's his chance, before they
all return their attention to the game.
[17:40] nan
They're not thinking right now.
It's a state of confusion.
[17:44] nan
Right now, they might just discard it!
[17:50] aka
Ron.
[17:53] nar
Akagi's plot was complemented with luck.
[17:56] nar
Suu ankou, daisangen.
[17:59] ---
Wha—
[18:01] guy
What is this?!
[18:03] guy
You bastard!
[18:05] guy
You think you can screw with us?!
[18:07] ryu
Stop it.
[18:07] guy
But, Bro!
[18:19] nan
He had factored this in, too?!
[18:22] nan
This kid's a monster.
[18:24] nan
This isn't something a middle
schooler could think up.
[18:27] nan
Everybody knows that he cheated.
[18:29] ---
Normally the yakuza would
not let this slide.
[18:33] nan
They'd use force if necessary.
[18:35] nan
To prevent that option, he lured
the cops here to be witnesses.
[18:42] guy
Bro, are you really okay with this?!
[18:44] ryu
What's okay doesn't matter.
[18:46] ryu
The ones who were cheated are the fools.
[18:48] ryu
But, kid,
[18:52] ---
make sure this is the last time.
[18:54] ryu
If you do it again and get caught,
[18:56] ---
in our world, it'll cost you your fingers.
[18:59] ryu
Cry all you want, but we won't let it slide.
[19:02] ryu
We've never let anyone off
the hook, not even once!
[19:04] ryu
Messing with the yakuza will net you
[19:07] ---
the harshest punishment in the world.
[19:09] ryu
Nothing will be taken into consideration.
SIGN Lounge
[19:17] guy
That kid's creepy, huh?
[19:19] guy
Since he got here,
they've won twice in a row.
[19:23] guy
Should we contact Yagi-san?
[19:26] ryu
Yagi? You mean our rep player, Yagi Keiji?
[19:31] guy
Y-Yes...
[19:36] ryu
Are you delirious?!
[19:39] ryu
You want to ask for backup when
we're playing this amateur child?
[19:42] ryu
Do you have no honor?!
[19:48] ryu
All he did was cheat his way to a yakuman.
[19:52] ryu
I won't let him do that again!
[19:55] ryu
It's a miracle that amateur
hasn't dealt into any hand yet.
[19:59] ---
That kind of coincidence
is not going to last!
[20:03] ryu
His luck has run out!
SIGN - East Hand 1 -
[20:12] cop
Inspector, are you going to stay here?
[20:15] yas
Yeah, it's still raining buckets,
so I'm going to take it easy a bit longer.
[20:20] cop
Then, I'll be going.
[20:22] yas
Sure.
[20:26] yas
You don't mind, right, Nangou-san?
[20:29] nan
N-Not at all.
[20:36] yas
Don't underestimate me, kid.
[20:38] yas
No matter how well you craft your
excuses, I know you are the one.
[20:46] yas
The atmosphere in here tells me that,
louder than any words could.
[20:53] yas
I'm going to find out the truth about you!
[20:58] nar
The genius who descended into
the darkness, Akagi Shigeru.
[21:02] nar
Beyond his eyes lies an infinite darkness.
[21:05] nar
This is the beginning of the legend.
[22:17] nar
Next time: "The Awakening of Talent."
SIGN Next Episode
SIGN The Awakening of Talent
2 - The Awakening of Talent
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[01:12] nar
The year is 1958.
[01:14] ---
A thunderstorm was raging that night...
[01:17] nar
The night the genius who descended
into the darkness, Akagi Shigeru,
[01:21] nar
the one who would come
to be known as the man
[01:23] nar
from the godly realm,
saw his legend begin.
[01:27] nar
Akagi had agreed to play for a man
struggling with debt, Nangou.
[01:30] nar
While playing against the yakuza,
his talent begins to awaken.
[01:36] ryu
Riichi.
[01:43] yas
This guy... how could he discard
[01:45] ---
that tile so calmly against that riichi?
[01:49] ---
He's a complete novice,
no matter how you look at it.
[01:52] yas
Those guys don't get it, either.
[01:55] yas
Somehow, for all his insane discards,
[01:57] ---
he never deals into anyone's hand.
[01:59] yas
I don't know if it's intuition or insight,
[02:03] ---
but either way, I'm sure he was
the kid from last night's incident!
SIGN Episode 2
SIGN The Awakening of Talent
[02:17] nar
It's South Hand 1. Ryuuzaki.
[02:23] ryu
Riichi.
[02:31] yas
Again?
[02:32] yas
He's lucky no one called that...
[02:35] yas
How can he keep discarding
these dangerous tiles so easily?
[02:39] yas
Is this the luck he was born with?
[02:48] yas
With this hand, you'd probably
want to discard the 5 of bamboo...
[02:53] yas
But it's unwise, since it's clear from
the discards that it's an ura suji.
[02:56] yas
On top of that, it's a dora.
You simply can't discard that.
[03:00] yas
Since he can see where all four
of the 3 of characters tiles are,
[03:03] ---
he should discard the 2 of characters...
[03:07] nan
H-Hang on a sec!
[03:11] nan
I know asking you to read the tiles in
[03:12] ---
the discard pile is too much to ask for,
[03:14] ---
but that's just too crazy.
[03:17] aka
Is this tile that dangerous?
[03:20] nan
That's Ryuuzaki's ura suji.
[03:23] nar
Ura suji is, for instance, getting a
3 of bamboo with a hand like this.
[03:27] ---
The 6 of bamboo will be discarded.
[03:29] nar
In Mahjong, this mechanism
makes it very likely that
[03:31] ---
the wait will be for a 2 or 5 of bamboo.
[03:34] nan
On top of that, the 5 of bamboo is a dora.
[03:36] aka
Dora?
[03:37] nan
A dora is a handy tile
[03:38] ---
that gives you an additional
han just for having it.
[03:43] aka
I didn't know that.
[03:46] aka
But that doesn't matter.
[03:49] nan
Hey!
[03:53] aka
See, this one went through.
[03:56] nan
You idiot!
[03:57] ---
If you keep playing like that, you'll eventually...
[04:03] ryu
Ron.
[04:07] nan
What?!
[04:07] yas
Waiting for a 2 or 5 of characters?!
[04:10] nan
Don't tell me...
[04:12] aka
I knew it.
[04:14] ---
I figured this area was
the most problematic.
[04:17] nan
Why?
[04:19] yas
How did you know that?
[04:20] aka
I heard the voices.
[04:22] guy
What?
[04:24] aka
Everybody's distracted by the noise
[04:26] ---
and simply can't hear their voices.
[04:29] aka
But I can hear them.
[04:31] ---
The voices of the three groups of discards.
[04:37] nar
In the end, Ryuuzaki loses
first place again this hand.
[04:43] nar
After the sixth game,
Nangou is at +49.
[04:46] nar
Only two games remain.
[04:49] ryu
This is ridiculous.
[04:51] ---
We're getting beaten by that amateur kid.
[04:54] ryu
At this rate, I'm going to have to shoulder
[04:59] ---
that scumbag's three million yen debt.
[05:02] ryu
Call Yagi. Call our rep player, Yagi!
[05:06] guy
Yes, sir!
[05:08] yas
None of this makes any sense.
[05:12] yas
You only started playing
Mahjong a few hours ago,
[05:15] ---
yet not only have you not dealt
into Ryuuzaki's hand once,
[05:18] ---
you also came out on top.
[05:21] yas
Can you tell us...
[05:23] ---
What you're seeing right now?
[05:30] aka
Detective,
[05:31] ---
what would you discard from this hand?
[05:36] yas
The south or west wind, I'd say.
[05:39] aka
Then, let's say those honor
tiles have been taken care of.
[05:42] aka
How about this hand?
[05:45] yas
8 of characters.
[05:47] aka
And from this one?
[05:49] nan
7 of circles!
[05:51] yas
7 of circles...
[05:53] aka
Detective, do you see the difference
[05:56] ---
between this 7 of circles
and the 8 of characters?
[05:59] yas
Difference?
[05:59] nan
What?
[06:01] aka
At first glance, it appears the 7 of circles and
8 of characters were discarded similarly.
[06:04] aka
However, they hold completely
opposite discard information.
[06:08] aka
When the 8 of characters was discarded,
it wasn't connected to
[06:11] ---
any wait in our hand.
[06:13] aka
On the other hand,
this 7 of circles is connected to
[06:15] ---
a wait and is therefore a dangerous tile.
[06:18] aka
If you were to classify discards in Mahjong,
[06:20] ---
there are essentially two groups.
[06:22] aka
Those in the safe zone,
and those in the danger zone.
[06:25] aka
Of course, there are tiles that don't
[06:27] ---
clearly fit into either group and
aren't much more than noise.
[06:30] aka
If you include that,
you have three groups.
[06:33] aka
Every discarded tile can be 100% explained
[06:35] ---
with these three groups.
[06:38] aka
Do you remember these discarded tiles?
[06:42] yas
Those are Ryuuzaki's tiles
when you discarded the dora.
[06:46] aka
Right. Nangou-san tried to stop me,
[06:49] ---
but to me, it was clear that it would pass.
[06:53] aka
He discarded the 6 of bamboo too early.
[06:55] aka
That means the 6 of bamboo's worth was lower
[06:58] ---
than the 9 of circles and 8 of
characters that came after,
[07:00] ---
meaning he had none
of the surrounding tiles.
[07:03] aka
Even if he did, they would've been
closer to the 2 or 3 of bamboo.
[07:06] aka
But that possibility also disappeared
[07:08] ---
when he discarded the 1 of bamboo
after drawing it in the eighth turn.
[07:11] aka
He had no bamboo tiles left.
[07:13] aka
From the early discard of the 6 of bamboo,
[07:15] ---
it was basically clear that he had
no bamboo tiles left in his hand.
[07:19] aka
The area around the
6 of bamboo is a safe zone.
[07:21] aka
But the area around the 1 of
characters that he'd clung to
[07:23] ---
until the sixth turn...
[07:25] aka
combined with the discarded
4 of characters afterward,
[07:28] ---
made it pretty obvious that he was
waiting for a 2 or 5 of characters.
[07:32] aka
Meaning that this 1 of characters
[07:34] ---
was the classic example of the danger zone.
[07:38] aka
This is how I classify my opponent's discards.
[07:42] aka
And the tile that didn't fit in either category...
[07:45] aka
This is the noise I mentioned earlier.
[07:49] yas
Noise?
[07:50] nan
Noise, huh?
[07:51] aka
Ryuuzaki has a bit of a habit.
[07:54] yas
A habit?
[07:57] aka
That time, Ryuuzaki...
[08:00] (Flashback) ryu
Riichi.
[08:01] aka
After declaring riichi,
he looked at his tiles,
[08:04] ---
then glanced to the left end of his hand.
[08:08] ryu
The left end...
[08:09] aka
Yes. That means he
looked at his character tiles.
[08:13] aka
He was double-checking
that he was in tenpai.
[08:17] aka
From that moment, the chance of him
waiting for circles was also gone.
[08:20] ---
He was only waiting for
character tiles, namely 2 or 5.
[08:25] yas
He's a monster!
[08:26] yas
He only started playing
Mahjong a few hours ago
[08:28] ---
and has already uncovered the
essence of the discarded tiles!
[08:31] yas
And his insight is frightening...
[08:34] yas
Ryuuzaki is no match for him.
[08:36] ---
He's already surpassed him by far.
[08:38] yas
The talent of a genius has awakened in him.
[08:46] nar
The showdown resumes.
[08:48] nar
It's the seventh game, the third
East-South match since Akagi joined.
[08:54] nan
I'm counting on you, Akagi.
[08:56] nan
Stay on this wave and finish it!
[09:02] nar
It's as if Nangou's prayer worked.
[09:04] nar
Akagi's doing well again
in this East-South match.
[09:07] nar
After the East round,
[09:08] ---
Akagi is in the lead, 22,000 points ahead
[09:10] ---
of the second place Ryuuzaki.
[09:12] nar
It seems as if this East-South
match is already decided.
[09:15] nar
But then...
SIGN Yagi Keiji
[09:24] nar
The rep player, Yagi Keiji, arrives.
[09:27] ryu
Yagi! I've been waiting for you!
[09:31] yag
Ryuuzaki-san, I hear you're
having a tough time.
[09:35] yag
I've seen the kid's tiles,
so I can't play this hand.
[09:40] ---
Shall I start in the next hand, then?
[09:43] ryu
Could you?
[09:44] yag
Don't worry, we still have
the entire South round to go.
[09:47] yag
I'll win this East-South match for you.
[09:51] nar
At that moment, Yagi didn't even
consider Akagi to be an opponent.
[09:55] nar
That's only to be expected.
[09:57] ---
After all, Akagi is a middle school student.
[10:02] nar
However, his opinion would quickly change.
[10:09] nar
The match resumes.
[10:10] nar
The dealer's first discard...
[10:13] ryu
Pon.
[10:14] nar
Ryuuzaki calls once.
[10:16] nar
Is it a rush?
[10:19] nar
And now, Akagi's first draw.
[10:22] nar
A pair of red dragons.
[10:24] yas
He's lucky.
[10:25] yas
Since he's in the lead,
an express ticket to early victory,
[10:28] ---
like the red dragon pair,
is just what he needs.
[10:32] nar
However, Akagi had a certain hunch...
[10:36] yas
What?
[10:38] nar
The next turn, he discards another red dragon!
[10:40] nar
Yasuoka can't believe that he
discarded the red dragon pair.
[10:43] nar
At that moment, Ryuuzaki thinks...
[10:48] ryu
Keeping the red dragon won't do any good.
[10:52] nar
But in the next turn...
[10:56] ryu
Damn it!
[10:59] nar
And the turn after that...
[11:03] ryu
Crap!
[11:05] ---
If I hadn't discarded the red dragon...
[11:13] ryu
Pon!
[11:15] nar
Akagi's reason for discarding
his pair of red dragons
[11:17] ---
finally becomes apparent.
[11:20] yas
He has such a keen sense that
[11:21] ---
he smelled the daisangen just
from the white dragon being called.
[11:24] yas
He foresaw the danger.
[11:26] yas
The strange move of dropping
the two red dragons
[11:28] ---
killed off Ryuuzaki's potential daisangen.
[11:32] nar
A few turns later,
[11:33] ---
Akagi is one tile away from
completing a sanshoku.
[11:37] nar
But, seeing that Ryuuzaki
can win any time...
[11:40] aka
Chi.
[11:42] nar
Without any remorse, he throws
away the sanshoku...
[11:46] aka
Ron.
[11:49] nar
...and takes a 1,000 point win.
[11:54] yas
He moves quickly.
His insight is spot on.
[11:57] yas
A normal player would be
hesitant to drop the sanshoku,
[12:00] ---
but this kid knows how much that
hesitation would slow him down.
[12:06] yas
His sense is miles ahead...
[12:08] yas
Ryuuzaki is simply no match for him.
[12:11] yas
It's like a shootout between a scoped
rifle and a crudely modded gun.
[12:17] yas
He'll be shot down
without having a chance.
[12:19] yas
The only concern now is this man, Yagi Keiji.
[12:29] ryu
You want to keep observing him
the rest of this East-South match?
[12:31] yag
Yes. We're 23,000 points behind,
and it's already South Hand 2.
[12:37] ---
To turn it around from here,
I'd have to overextend quite a bit.
[12:40] yag
And that kid's actually quite formidable.
[12:44] yag
I heard he's a beginner.
[12:47] ---
That makes him even more eerie
as an unknown quantity.
[12:51] yag
It's best to not underestimate him.
[12:53] yag
Observing him for the rest of this
East-South match is safest.
[12:57] nar
The match resumes with South Hand 2.
[13:01] yas
I see. This guy isn't stupid.
[13:05] yas
Did he pick up on Akagi's
talent with one glance?
[13:08] yas
The opponent's only a middle schooler.
[13:10] yas
Most people would want to show
off in a situation like this.
[13:12] yas
His restraint is admirable.
[13:14] yas
He's definitely a higher
ranked player than Ryuuzaki.
[13:21] nar
Akagi's one tile away from tenpai.
[13:23] ---
It's already the eighth turn.
[13:30] yag
What?!
[13:33] nar
At that moment, the player before Akagi
[13:35] ---
was in tenpai with a
junchan sanshoku hand,
SIGN Junchan (jun chanta) - A "pure" chanta with terminals in each set, and no honor tiles.
[13:37] nar
with a closed wait for an 8 of bamboo.
SIGN Closed wait - Waiting for the middle tile in a sequence.
[13:41] yag
How did he avoid discarding the 8 of bamboo?
[13:44] yag
From the previous player's discards,
[13:46] ---
it would've made sense to discard his
least useful tile, the 8 of bamboo.
[13:50] yag
He sensed that the 8 of
bamboo is dangerous and
[13:52] ---
discarded the 5 of bamboo instead...
[13:55] yag
What can this kid see?
[13:59] nar
The following turn.
[14:03] yag
I can't believe what he just drew.
[14:05] yag
Not only does he seem to see
through everybody's hands,
[14:07] ---
he also has incredible luck.
[14:09] yag
An 8 of bamboo triplet...
[14:13] yag
He basically holds all the winning
tiles of the player before him.
[14:18] nar
The turn after that.
[14:24] aka
Riichi.
[14:27] nar
Akagi declares riichi with a wait
for the 2 or 5 of characters.
[14:30] nar
The detective Yasuoka, watching from
behind him, doesn't notice anything.
[14:33] nar
Obviously, neither does Nangou.
[14:35] nar
However,
[14:37] nar
a shock runs through Yagi.
[14:40] yag
Riichi after discarding the 6 of circles...
[14:42] yag
That was a mistake.
[14:44] yag
If he had to declare riichi from this hand,
he should have discarded the 5 of circles.
[14:48] yag
If he drew a 4 of circles,
SIGN Kan - Four of a kind that is revealed to the other players.
[14:49] ---
he could have declared kan, as well.
[14:51] yag
Since that would give him
a draw from the dead wall
[14:53] ---
and an additional dora indicator,
[14:55] ---
there was no choice but
to discard the 5 of circles.
[14:57] yag
In other words, his riichi
should have looked like this.
[15:00] yag
Why didn't he do it that way?
[15:04] yag
I bet he thought that he couldn't
declare kan after declaring riichi.
[15:07] yag
He still is just a beginner.
[15:10] yag
I can beat him.
[15:11] yag
I'll take advantage of that
opening and destroy his game.
[15:15] yag
The smarter they are, the worse
they stumble once thrown off balance.
[15:21] nar
In the end, Akagi dominated
the seventh game.
[15:25] nar
If Akagi wins one more game,
[15:28] ---
all of Nangou's debts will be paid off,
and it will all be over.
[15:33] ryu
Can you win?
[15:34] yag
Just trust me.
[15:37] yag
Except...
[15:40] yag
I have a request.
[15:44] yag
Don't you think this is an unfair fight?
[15:49] aka
Unfair?
[15:50] yag
Yeah. Think about it.
[15:52] ---
Ryuuzaki-san, your opponent up to now,
[15:54] ---
will lose a tremendous amount
of money if he loses.
[15:57] yag
And, as his rep player,
[15:58] ---
losing to an amateur will mean
that my career will be over.
[16:03] yag
But what about you?
[16:05] yag
If you lose, only Nangou will be in trouble.
[16:10] yag
You won't lose anything.
[16:13] aka
What are you getting at?
[16:15] yag
It's quite simple.
Let's make a personal wager.
[16:19] yag
100,000 yen on one East-South match.
[16:22] yag
I realize that you can't get
that kind of money right now.
[16:26] yag
That's why I'm willing to
accept a substitute for it.
[16:31] aka
What kind of substitute?
[16:33] yag
One finger for 100,000 yen.
[16:36] yas
N-Now just a minute...
[16:39] aka
Sure.
[16:41] ---
If it's the same.
[16:42] yag
The same?
[16:44] aka
Yeah. You don't look like you
have that kind of money, either.
[16:49] aka
If you're willing to equally pay
with a finger when you lose,
[16:53] ---
I don't mind.
[16:54] yag
You little shit...
[16:56] yag
Of course, I accept.
[16:58] yag
Don't forget what you just said!
[17:02] yas
He didn't see that coming.
[17:04] yas
That was just a bluff.
[17:05] ---
He tried to scare Akagi and
overwhelm him with pressure.
[17:10] yas
This kid parried that elegantly.
[17:14] yas
He's got guts.
SIGN - Eighth Game -
[17:18] nar
When gambling, having something to lose
[17:21] ---
changes the game fundamentally.
[17:24] nar
When there's nothing to lose,
[17:26] ---
one's intuition and concentration
are the deciding factors.
[17:29] nar
But when there is something at stake,
[17:32] ---
those abilities alone will
not carry you to victory.
[17:35] nar
It doesn't matter how well you
can read your opponent's hands
[17:37] ---
if you can't trust your own conclusion.
[17:40] nar
If you lack the capacity
[17:42] ---
to entrust your fate to your
conclusion, it's all meaningless.
[17:46] nar
Which means your will to trust yourself,
[17:49] ---
your soul, is what is being tested.
[17:53] yag
Riichi.
[17:59] nar
Yagi is in a closed wait for a 7 of bamboo.
[18:02] yas
Yagi is already bluffing.
[18:05] yas
With a hand like this, you'd usually wait
[18:07] ---
for a two-sided wait before declaring riichi.
[18:09] yas
But he went for it without hesitation.
[18:11] yas
A preemptive breakaway riichi.
[18:13] yas
Yagi wants to see how Akagi will react.
[18:16] yas
The nature of the game has changed.
[18:20] nar
Now Akagi is in tenpai, as well.
[18:22] yas
This is interesting.
[18:24] yas
If Akagi hasn't wavered,
[18:26] ---
he'll determine that the
7 of characters discarded
[18:28] ---
in the second turn is a safe zone,
and discard his 6 of characters.
[18:31] yas
But if there is any doubt in his heart...
[18:35] nar
But Akagi doesn't hesitate.
[18:39] yas
He's a chicken game survivor after all.
[18:42] yas
Discarding this without wavering
[18:44] ---
already places him in a realm
common people will never reach.
[18:47] yas
There is no hesitation at all.
SIGN - Next Turn -
[18:52] nar
Akagi's next draw.
[18:58] yas
He made the 6 of characters pass, but holds
on to the winning tile, the 7 of bamboo.
[19:02] yas
A precise read...
[19:04] yas
Along with a strong heart that allows
him to utilize it under pressure.
[19:08] yas
Akagi Shigeru's most
outstanding talent is...
[19:13] yas
the ability to trust his own judgment.
[19:16] yas
His unwavering heart.
[19:20] nar
Yagi's plan to crack Akagi with
pressure utterly fails.
[19:25] nar
It seemed as if the game's flow
was in Akagi's favor when...
[19:36] yas
No! That's Yagi's winning tile!
[19:39] ryu
Why?
[19:41] ryu
Why didn't you win with that tile?
[19:44] yag
This is my plan.
[19:47] ---
I don't need to win this trash hand.
[19:52] yag
If I don't win, Akagi will
probably win East Hand 1.
[19:57] yag
But that's all right.
[20:01] yag
Akagi will pick up some points,
[20:03] ---
but along with them,
he'll pick up some doubts.
[20:06] yag
Those doubts will eventually hit
him hard, like a body blow.
[20:09] yag
Once he starts questioning
his own judgment,
[20:12] ---
he will seriously doubt himself towards
the end, when the pressure's on.
[20:16] yag
Then, he's likely to make a bad discard.
[20:19] yag
That one mistake can be
fatal in a match like this.
[20:24] yag
I've survived in this
world longer than you.
[20:27] yag
The way I keep myself alive
is different than yours.
[20:30] yag
You're already half-caught in my trap.
[20:35] nar
But in the 15th turn...
[20:39] yas
There it is! Ryanpeikou, pinfu, tsumo!
SIGN Ryanpeikou - A double sequence, here 33-44-55 and 77-88-99. Pinfu - A hand of only sequences and a 2 or more sided wait.
[20:42] yas
Mangan!
[20:49] nar
Akagi does not take the win.
[20:52] yag
That bastard... could he...
[20:55] nar
The unwavering heart
of the genius Akagi.
[20:59] nar
The endless schemes of Yagi.
[21:01] nar
The quiet duel to the
death between two rivals...
[21:05] nar
The night of legends continues...
[22:16] nar
Next Episode: "The Sinister Scheme."
SIGN Next Episode
SIGN The Sinister Scheme
3 - The Sinister Scheme
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[01:15] Nar
The young genius who
descended into darkness,
[01:18] Nar
the one who would rule
over the underworld,
[01:20] ---
Akagi Shigeru, has awakened.
[01:23] Nar
That legendary night.
Game number eight.
[01:25] Nar
Neither Yagi nor Akagi
have attempted a win.
[01:32] Nar
It's a draw.
SIGN Episode 3
SIGN The Sinister Scheme
[01:38] Aka
Tenpai.
[01:41] Yagi
Little bastard.
[01:43] Yagi
You threw away your
mangan win to confirm it?
[01:47] Yagi
You wanted to see if you really
read me incorrectly...
[01:51] Yagi
Most people can't do that,
even though they understand
[01:54] ---
how useful it could be later in the game.
[01:56] Yagi
This is a game of Mahjong that
could cost the loser a finger.
[01:58] Yagi
Most would try to gain every possible point.
[02:01] Yagi
But this kid...
[02:03] Yagi
Doesn't he care what happens to him?
[02:06] Aka
Yagi-san, would you reveal your hand, please?
[02:09] Aka
You're in tenpai, right?
[02:16] Aka
Just as I thought.
[02:18] Aka
A twisted way of playing.
[02:20] Aka
Typical of someone who only ever thinks
[02:22] ---
about tricking people.
[02:25] Aka
So unimaginative.
[02:29] Guy
Yagi...
[02:32] Yagi
Don't worry.
[02:33] Yagi
I'm fully awake now.
[02:37] Yagi
Somewhere deep inside, I still
wasn't taking this kid seriously.
[02:41] Yagi
Well, not anymore.
[02:45] Yagi
Why?
[02:46] Yagi
Because there's a demon lurking
right under this kid's skin.
[02:54] Yagi
I can't calculate his potential.
[02:56] Yagi
Mark my words, this man is
[02:58] ---
going to become a fearsome
gambler some day.
[03:01] Yagi
But I can still beat him right now.
[03:03] Yagi
Because he doesn't understand
how kan and riichi really work.
[03:06] Yagi
Just wait!
[03:08] Yagi
A few more hands, and I'll drain
the color out of your face.
[03:13] Nar
But it was Akagi who took
possession of the flow.
[03:17] Aka
Tsumo.
[03:18] Nar
In East Hand 2, he easily scores
[03:20] ---
1,000 points with a tsumo
win and picks up speed.
[03:23] Nar
Even if common people are
able to grasp the flow,
[03:25] ---
they often can't take advantage of it.
[03:28] Nar
But that's not the case with Akagi.
[03:34] Nar
Mentanpin, tsumo, one dora.
SIGN Mentanpin - Combines menzen (closed hand), tanyao (hand comprised of only 2-8), and pinfu.
[03:36] Nar
Mangan.
[03:38] Nar
His hands move without hesitation.
[03:40] Nar
He is in harmony with his own rhythm.
[03:43] Nar
Still...
[03:44] Nar
Yagi is silently waiting for an opportunity.
[03:48] Nar
He's aiming for a counter blow.
[03:50] Nar
And then, in South Hand 3...
SIGN - South Hand 3 -
[03:54] Nar
The opportunity arises.
[03:57] Yagi
I've been waiting for this hand!
[04:00] Nar
Right now, what Yagi is attempting
[04:03] ---
is a form of cheating called "The Caterpillar."
[04:07] Nar
He takes two 7 of bamboo
tiles in his left hand.
[04:10] Nar
Pretending to push his
own wall forward,
[04:12] ---
he pushes the two tiles into the wall.
[04:16] Nar
The overflowing tiles go below and
the remaining tiles go above.
[04:20] Nar
The tiles basically mimic
the motion of a caterpillar.
[04:24] Nar
The final position of the
7 of bamboo tiles is here.
[04:26] Nar
His final move is to return
two tiles from the
[04:29] ---
right edge in his right hand.
[04:30] Nar
This all happens in under two seconds.
[04:32] Nar
There is no hesitation, as he has practiced
these motions tens of thousands of times.
[04:36] Nar
It helps that, at this point,
[04:37] ---
everyone is focused on
sorting their own tiles.
[04:40] Nar
Usually, nobody notices.
[04:43] Nar
The two tiles he drew are not important.
[04:46] Nar
What's important are the two
7 of bamboo tiles he buried in his wall.
[04:49] Nar
One is the dora indicator tile.
[04:51] Nar
The second tile will be the new
[04:53] ---
dora indicator tile when a kan is declared.
[04:56] Nar
Which means that in one moment,
[04:58] ---
Yagi can go from a trash hand to
a monster hand with eight dora.
[05:02] Nar
Not knowing any of this,
Akagi, on his 12th turn...
[05:07] Akagi
Riichi.
[05:09] Yagi
Gotcha!
[05:11] Yagi
Akagi has entrusted himself
to the flow of the game.
[05:14] Yagi
Once he's sure he won't deal into anyone's
hand and can draw his own winning tile,
[05:18] Yagi
he declares riichi even with his huge lead.
[05:20] Yagi
That hunch is probably right.
[05:22] Yagi
He has an innate sense for that.
[05:25] Yagi
But even this genius has a weak point.
[05:29] Yagi
He doesn't have enough
experience with rough play.
[05:32] Yagi
And he doesn't know the
terror of the riichi.
[05:35] Yagi
I'm going to teach him.
[05:41] Guy
Pon!
[05:46] Nar
On the 13th turn, Akagi is skipped.
[05:49] Nar
He's skipped again on the 14th turn.
[05:51] Guy
Pon!
[05:54] Nar
Akagi is skipped twice in a row.
[05:58] Yagi
The flow doesn't mean jack
if you can't draw a tile.
[06:00] Yagi
We're almost ready.
[06:04] Guy
Sorry.
[06:08] Aka
The east wind?
[06:10] Aka
The 3 of circles he put back
should've been his draw.
[06:13] Aka
Which means the guy after me
will draw that 3 of circles.
[06:17] Aka
This guy's already called twice.
Will that be his winning tile?
[06:21] Aka
Cheap.
[06:23] Aka
But...
[06:24] Aka
it's hard to tell if that switch
[06:25] ---
was intentional or a simple mistake.
[06:29] Aka
Even if I say something, it'll just
turn into a pointless argument.
[06:34] Man
Pon!
[06:37] Kami
So I guess that 3 of circles is
going to the next player again.
[06:42] Kami
What is going on?
[06:46] Yagi
It's here!
[06:48] Nar
The moment is ripe.
[06:50] Yagi
Kan!
[06:54] Aka
Four dora?
[06:58] Aka
Eight dora?!
[06:59] Yagi
Riichi!
[07:04] Yagi
Now do you understand
what riichi is all about?
[07:07] Yagi
Once you've declared riichi,
you're powerless to adapt
[07:10] ---
to any changes that come after.
[07:11] Shimo
Chi.
[07:16] Aka
So now, that 3 of circles is my draw.
[07:21] Yagi
It doesn't matter how suspicious you are.
[07:24] Yagi
Since you've already declared riichi,
[07:25] ---
you have no choice but to discard
anything that's not your winning tile!
[07:32] Nar
A riichi can turn a genius into a peasant.
[07:38] Yagi
Ron!
[07:44] Yagi
No reverse dora, but still...
[07:46] Yagi
Riichi, eight dora. Baiman.
SIGN Baiman - Double mangan, worth 16,000 points (24,000 for the dealer).
[07:49] Yagi
And now I'm in the lead.
[07:51] nan
Akagi!
[07:52] Aka
Don't worry.
[07:53] Aka
These things happen.
[07:57] Aka
But, you know, that was quite
the elaborate setup, Yagi-san.
[08:03] Aka
I'm going to be more direct now.
[08:11] Nar
There's only one hand left, South Hand 4.
[08:18] nan
He's got a slow hand.
[08:20] nan
He'd do better with a quick hand here.
[08:22] nan
A tanpin hand would be best.
[08:24] Nar
And yet, in this moment,
[08:26] ---
the young genius, Akagi,
[08:28] ---
was writing a completely
different story in his head.
[08:31] Nar
The second turn.
[08:34] Aka
Pon.
[08:38] Nar
The third turn.
[08:40] Aka
Chi.
[08:45] nan
A quick attack.
[08:46] nan
Akagi's trying to head them off.
[08:49] nan
He's trying to make them think he's
going for a chinitsu or honitsu hand
SIGN Chinitsu - Full flush with only one suit. Honitsu - Half flush including one suit and honors.
[08:52] nan
and tying the hands of the
other players besides Yagi.
[08:55] nan
They don't have the balls
to stay in the game
[08:59] nan
and risk giving him a winning
tile in the last hand.
[09:02] nan
After he called twice, they're
only discarding safe tiles.
[09:04] nan
They're out.
[09:06] Cop2
He's made this game
between him and Yagi.
[09:09] Nar
And then, on the eighth turn...
[09:12] Aka
Pon.
[09:14] Yagi
He's called three times?
[09:16] Yagi
It looks like a chinitsu hand,
but there's no way.
[09:19] Yagi
Those three calls are bluffs.
[09:21] Yagi
More like a tanyao.
[09:24] Yagi
With a single dora tile,
he'll overtake my 4,000 point lead.
[09:31] Yagi
Damn.
[09:32] Yagi
I can't discard this dora.
[09:34] Yagi
Damn it.
[09:36] Yagi
If I waste too much time,
he'll draw his winning tile.
[09:40] Nar
However, right then,
Akagi was in not in tenpai.
[09:44] Nar
South Hand 4, eighth turn.
[09:46] Nar
At this point in time,
Akagi isn't waiting for any tiles.
[09:49] Cop
If anything, I think this is on purpose.
[09:52] Cop
He's probably going for a three-way
wait, with a 3 or 5 of characters.
[09:57] Cop
He's betting on his own draws.
[10:00] Cop
There is no single tile wait that
could work in this situation.
[10:03] Cop
Still, this is strange.
[10:07] Cop
I feel like there's some
hidden purpose here.
[10:14] Nar
While Yasuoka entertained his
faint hunch, it finally happened...
[10:18] Nar
In the 10th turn.
[10:20] Aka
Kan.
[10:24] Cop
What?!
[10:25] Cop
Why is he declaring a kan now?!
[10:26] Cop
Forcing yourself to wait on
a single tile is suicide!
[10:30] Nar
And then, Akagi...
[10:37] Nar
He knocks over his waiting tile
[10:40] ---
while reaching over to
draw from the dead wall.
[10:44] Cop
How could he make a mistake like that?
[10:49] Yagi
Now he's done it.
[10:52] Yagi
A fatal mistake, at a time like this!
[10:59] Yagi
That settles it.
[11:01] Yagi
I know he's waiting on a characters tile.
[11:03] Yagi
Which means that, at least, this turn,
any tile other than a character is safe.
[11:08] Yagi
Any tile, even the extremely
dangerous dora tile, the 4 of bamboo.
[11:13] Cop
I can't believe it.
[11:15] Cop
He's so calm and collected,
and then he screws up like that!
[11:19] Cop
Why did he declare a kan to begin with?
[11:24] Cop
What kind of single wait
could be worth throwing
[11:26] ---
a three-way wait away for?
[11:29] Cop
Which character is he waiting for, anyway?
[11:34] Cop
What the hell?!
[11:35] Cop
There can't be five 4 of character tiles!
[11:39] Cop
What?
[11:40] Cop
A 4 of bamboo...
[11:41] Cop
But why?
[11:42] Nar
Yasuoka is confused.
[11:44] Cop
I see.
[11:47] Cop
That 4 of characters kan was just a trick.
[11:51] Cop
All Yagi sees is an ordinary kan,
[11:54] ---
but Akagi slipped the 4 of
bamboo he had drawn into it.
[11:57] Cop
And then, when he went to
draw from the dead wall,
[12:00] ---
he deliberately knocked it over.
[12:02] Cop
He let his opponent see
only the character symbol,
[12:05] ---
to make him believe he was
waiting on a character tile.
[12:09] Cop
But in reality, his wait is for a 4 of bamboo!
[12:13] Cop
I can't believe it.
[12:15] Nar
Normally, this 4 of bamboo is an
[12:17] ---
extremely dangerous tile
that couldn't be discarded
[12:19] ---
because Akagi could be
going for a tanyao.
[12:21] Nar
And yet, believing that Akagi is
actually waiting on a characters tile,
[12:26] ---
it becomes the easiest
tile to discard this turn.
[12:28] Nar
Precisely because it is the only chance
to get rid of the dangerous tile
[12:33] ---
he could not risk discarding until now.
[12:49] Aka
You're such an idiot, Yagi-san.
[12:54] Aka
You really believe I'd knock my tile over
in a situation like this, even by mistake?
[13:01] Yagi
What the hell are you talking about?
[13:03] Aka
Ron.
[13:09] Yagi
Tanyao, two dora!
[13:13] Nar
The character tile he had glimpsed
[13:14] ---
had melted into the kan
and risen to the heavens.
[13:17] Nar
Akagi's outrageous single
wait was for a dora tile.
[13:22] nan
We won.
[13:25] nan
My debt is gone.
[13:26] nan
I'm saved...
[13:28] nan
At one point I thought I was going to die,
[13:32] ---
but Akagi saved my life.
[13:36] nan
This rough night is over.
[13:40] Nar
No.
[13:41] Nar
It was not over yet.
[13:43] Nar
Right then, Akagi was thinking
the exact opposite from Nangou.
[13:47] Nar
Ryuuzaki-san,
this isn't over yet, right?
[13:50] Ryuu
What did you say?
[13:53] Aka
Let's take the three million
that erased Nangou's debt
[13:56] ---
and play one more match with that at stake.
[13:59] Aka
Double or nothing.
[14:03] Nan
Hey, hey!
[14:04] Nan
Don't get reckless here!
[14:06] Nan
If you lose, it's my life on the line!
[14:07] Aka
It'll be fine.
[14:08] Nan
Easy for you to say!
[14:10] Aka
You've already faced death once.
[14:12] Aka
Let's push this to the limit.
[14:15] Nan
But...
[14:17] Aka
Nangou-san.
[14:19] ---
You know who's feeling the
[14:20] ---
most pressure after the
double or nothing proposal?
[14:22] Aka
They are.
[14:24] Aka
They're well aware that they've got
no hopes of winning this game.
[14:30] Aka
Nor can they back down.
They've got their reputation to uphold.
[14:34] Aka
They're the kind of fools who won't back down
[14:35] ---
even if they know they'll lose.
[14:37] Aka
Sitting ducks, so to speak.
[14:39] Nan
Akagi...
[14:40] Aka
We're going to milk them dry.
[14:48] Nar
Double or nothing.
The wager is three million.
[14:51] Nar
For Akagi, entering this
game was ridiculously easy.
[14:56] Nar
Yagi's confidence is already in shreds.
[14:59] Nar
One more push is all it'll take.
[15:01] Aka
Riichi.
[15:05] Aka
Ron.
[15:10] Nar
It was a single hell wait on a west wind.
SIGN Hell wait - Waiting for a tile when the other three are in your hand or the discard pile.
[15:13] Nar
Akagi instinctively knows
how to break a person
[15:16] ---
who has already begun to crumble.
[15:19] Nar
Then, in East Hand 3...
[15:27] Yagi
If I discard the 3 or 6 of
characters, I'll be in tenpai.
[15:30] Yagi
That's a little risky, though.
[15:33] Yagi
I guess I go for this, then.
[15:36] Yagi
That west wind from before
left a bad taste in my mouth,
[15:39] ---
but that couldn't happen again...
[15:45] Aka
I wasn't expecting to see that.
[15:49] Aka
Your judgment is clouded, Yagi-san.
[15:52] Aka
That's it.
[15:55] Yagi
A single wait for the 1 of characters?!
[15:58] Yagi
That's crazy!
[15:59] Yagi
If he'd used the 2 of characters
he declared riichi with,
[16:01] ---
he could've gone for a pinfu with
a 3 or 6 of characters wait,
[16:03] Yagi
or a tanyao with a
2 or 5 of characters wait...
[16:05] Yagi
He could've gotten any number
of more expensive hands!
[16:09] Yagi
But he deliberately waited
for the 1 of characters!
[16:12] Yagi
He's only out to get me!
[16:16] Nar
At that moment,
something snaps in Yagi's soul.
[16:19] Nar
After that, he completely falls apart.
[16:22] Nar
The hand continues, but Yagi is
a shadow of who he was before.
[16:25] Nar
His play becomes thoroughly timid,
[16:28] ---
perpetually ruled by Akagi's motions.
[16:31] Nar
He no longer has the will to fight.
[16:34] Nar
By making it hard to discard
terminal and honor tiles,
[16:37] Nar
Akagi controls Yagi's game as if
he's laid a curse on his soul.
[16:42] Nar
At this time, Akagi is starting to
grasp the fundamental principles
[16:45] ---
of competitive Mahjong.
[16:48] Nar
Mahjong is not about how
to win your own hands.
[16:51] Nar
Quite the opposite.
[16:53] Nar
It is about how to deny
your opponents theirs.
[16:57] Nar
Only those who can expand
their own vision can win.
[17:02] Nar
The last hand.
[17:03] Nar
Yagi is over 50,000 points
behind the leading Akagi,
[17:06] ---
but goes for a final attack.
[17:08] Yagi
Pon!
[17:10] Shimo
Chi!
[17:14] Nar
He's going for a quick attack,
relying on his dealer streak.
SIGN The dealer remains dealer as long as he wins. The last hand continues until someone else wins, breaking his streak.
[17:17] Nar
But...
[17:20] Aka
Riichi.
[17:24] Nar
He falls apart after Akagi's riichi.
[17:27] Nar
It's one safe tile after another.
[17:31] Nar
He called twice early on,
[17:33] ---
but now his hand is a complete mess.
[17:37] Nar
He is falling apart.
[17:40] Nar
After seeing Akagi's discards, he can't
discard any terminal or honor tiles.
[17:45] Nar
He must discard them if he wants
to attempt a win, but he can't.
[17:51] Nar
And yet, he hasn't completely folded, either.
[17:54] Nar
He's in a moment of confusion.
[18:07] Aka
Ron.
[18:20] Nar
It is over.
[18:23] Guy
I'm sorry, but I don't have
the money on me right now.
[18:26] Guy
I'll contact you later.
[18:27] Guy
Come on. We're going.
[18:33] Aka
What are you talking about?
[18:36] Aka
Not yet.
[18:38] Aka
It's not over yet.
[18:40] Aka
Double or nothing with the
three million we just won.
[18:44] Aka
Now the game's wager is six million.
[18:47] Aka
I won't let you end it here.
[18:50] Aka
We keep going to the limit,
[18:53] ---
until one of us falls apart.
[18:56] Aka
After the match is over,
there won't be anything left.
[18:59] Aka
We're going until we see the depths of Hell.
[19:11] Aka
You're not going to run away, are you?
[19:14] Boss
Who's running, you jackass?
[19:16] Boss
I'm not running,
but it's already morning.
[19:20] Boss
We'll have to do it another
time. I don't feel like it!
[19:24] Aka
"I can't because it's morning."
[19:26] Aka
Nice excuse.
[19:27] Boss
What?
[19:29] Cop
There, there.
[19:30] Cop
Leave this to me.
[19:33] Cop
No need to get touchy.
[19:35] Cop
Just do it on another day.
[19:37] Cop
Think about it.
[19:39] Cop
Now matter how long you play
and how much you win,
[19:42] ---
there's no guarantee they'll
be good for the money.
[19:45] Cop
They'll probably weasel out of it.
[19:47] Cop
They'll pay a few million, but not if
it gets into the tens of millions.
[19:53] Cop
You can bet they'll go back on their word.
[19:56] Cop
It would be best to officially
hold the rematch on another day.
[20:00] Cop
Then I can ask a boss I know
to supervise the match.
[20:04] Cop
There's a lot of money at risk here.
[20:07] Cop
You don't want to be reckless, Akagi.
[20:09] Cop
Got it?
[20:10] Cop
We'll stop here today, but
I want to get this in writing.
[20:16] Cop
Write down that Nangou's debt is gone,
[20:19] ---
and that you owe three million.
[20:22] Cop
And then, that you agree to a rematch.
[20:27] Cop
I'll arrange it.
[20:29] Cop
I'll contact you about the time
and location in a few days.
[20:33] Cop
I'm going to provide you with
the best stage to play on.
[20:50] Nan
Akagi.
[20:56] Nar
The legendary night is over...
[20:59] Nar
No, this is just the beginning.
[21:02] Nar
It's the prelude to the legend
of Akagi Shigeru, the genius
[21:06] Nar
who descended into the darkness.
SIGN Next time: "A True Outlaw."
SIGN Next Episode
SIGN A True Outlaw
4 - A True Outlaw
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[01:12] nar
The genius who descended into
the underworld, Akagi Shigeru.
[01:16] nar
Soon, he would create legends there
SIGN Episode 4
SIGN A True Outlaw
[01:19] nar
as the man rumored to hail
from the godly realm.
[01:22] nar
Now that he's won his first game,
the prelude to the legend,
[01:25] nar
the battle is about to
move on to the next stage.
[01:34] yas
Hi, over here.
[01:36] yas
Sorry.
[01:38] yas
This isn't really a
place for kids your age,
[01:41] yas
but places like these are all I know.
[01:43] yas
You can handle beer, right?
[01:49] yas
Let me tell you what's been set up.
[01:51] yas
The match will be in three days,
on Friday, at 8 PM.
[01:54] yas
It'll be at a restaurant in
the city called Sasagawa.
[01:57] yas
The witness will be Miyauchi,
the boss of the Takeyoshi group.
[02:01] yas
He's the most chivalrous
gambler in the Kanto region.
[02:04] yas
Now, let's toast to our reunion.
[02:06] aka
Before we do that,
[02:09] aka
tell me about the other condition.
[02:17] yas
All right, let's discuss
how we'll split the money.
[02:22] yas
If we win this match,
my cut will be 20%.
[02:26] yas
The expenses for setting
this up will eat about 10%.
[02:31] yas
As the rep player, you get 20%.
[02:33] yas
Nangou gets 50% as the one putting
up the wager. That's standard.
[02:38] aka
Why do people get so
dirty as they get older?
[02:42] aka
You have nothing to lose,
and you want 20%?
[02:46] aka
And 10% for the expenses
sounds awfully high, too.
[02:49] yas
I'm taking quite a few risks myself.
[02:52] yas
If my superiors find out I'm doing this,
I'll be facing a disciplinary dismissal.
[02:56] aka
That's not enough of a risk.
[02:59] yas
Damn, all right.
[03:02] yas
I'll give you 5% from my cut.
[03:05] aka
That's not what I am talking about.
[03:07] aka
I only have one condition.
[03:09] aka
Let's start the wager at eight million.
[03:11] yas
Eight million?!
[03:13] yas
Nangou only has six million!
[03:15] yas
Where are we going to get
the other two million from?!
[03:17] aka
You're going to put it up.
[03:19] aka
If you're not willing to risk
even that, don't get involved.
[03:23] yas
You damn brat!
[03:25] aka
If you don't accept, I'm out.
[03:29] yas
All right, I'll accept!
[03:34] aka
Now you're a real corrupt cop.
[03:36] nan
That's ridiculous!
[03:38] nan
That wager is insane!
[03:41] nan
Can't we at least limit it
to the three million we won?
[03:44] aka
What's good about this is
that it's not rational.
[03:47] aka
Either way, we shouldn't lower
the wager for this match.
[03:51] aka
Doing that would be suicide.
[03:55] aka
It's our insanity that they're afraid of.
[03:59] aka
That night, I survived because
I didn't hit the brakes.
[04:02] nan
That night?
[04:04] yas
The game of chicken?
[04:09] aka
It was a gamble I made with some punks.
[04:13] aka
That game was obviously
rigged in their favor.
[04:17] aka
First, they knew exactly
where they needed to brake.
[04:22] aka
Second, they chose the
car on the right side.
[04:27] aka
On the right side, they could jump out
from the driver side door if necessary.
[04:33] aka
The driver on the left can't do that,
since the other car blocks that side.
[04:36] aka
Everything was rigged in their favor.
[04:40] aka
In order for me to win,
[04:43] aka
I had to negate the condition
that the game was based on.
[04:46] yas
What condition?
[04:50] aka
That we didn't want to die.
[04:55] aka
At the time, I wasn't afraid of dying.
[05:00] aka
I had no intention of braking from the start.
[05:04] aka
Obviously, the car shot off
the cliff at full speed.
[05:08] aka
Where those cliffs are situated,
[05:10] aka
the water suddenly gets
deeper after a certain point.
[05:13] aka
So braking actually lowers
your chance of survival.
[05:16] aka
But my opponent was too fixated on me,
[05:20] aka
missing his opportunity
to jump from his car.
[05:21] aka
He also braked.
[05:27] aka
Of course, he bounced off the rocks
before falling into the water.
[05:33] aka
He ruined himself.
[05:35] nan
Are you telling me I should
do something like you did?
[05:38] nan
I can't do that!
[05:39] aka
Yes, you can.
[05:42] aka
In fact, you already did.
[05:46] aka
I'm sure you haven't forgotten.
[05:48] aka
Back then,
[05:50] aka
when you were playing against Ryuuzaki,
[05:52] aka
the 5 of circles was a super dangerous tile.
[06:00] aka
But...
[06:06] aka
That discard was akin to
flooring it as you neared the cliff.
[06:11] aka
Winning money you couldn't earn with
30 years of honest work, or death?
[06:18] aka
That's not a bridge you could
cross with a sane mind anyway.
[06:21] aka
Nangou-san, throw yourself away.
[06:25] aka
Just for one more night.
[06:30] nar
With Yasuoka's additional two million,
[06:32] nar
the stakes in the match against
the yakuza are now at eight million.
[06:38] nar
Today, that would be equivalent
to about 80 million yen,
[06:42] nar
all riding on this match.
[06:44] nar
On the day of the match,
[06:46] nar
Akagi was summoned by the
opponents he would be facing.
[06:53] nan
Why do you have to go there
just because they called you?
[06:56] nan
They're the kind of people who
will kill for money, you know!
[07:01] nan
Akagi!
[07:02] aka
Well, there's also something
I need to get from them.
[07:06] nan
Listen, it's not too late.
[07:08] nan
Let's call to cancel.
[07:10] nan
I can't see any good coming of this.
[07:12] aka
That doesn't matter.
[07:15] aka
Tonight's Mahjong match will
be a game of life or death.
[07:18] aka
At this point, being locked up
or threatened won't scare me.
[07:22] nan
But still... Akagi...
SIGN Fuji Coffee
[07:26] aka
This is it.
[07:28] aka
What do you want to do?
[07:30] aka
If you're that worried,
you can come in with me.
[07:32] nan
No, I'm...
[07:35] aka
I'll come out when we're done.
[07:37] aka
Should be about 30 minutes.
[07:43] nan
Akagi...
[07:55] guy
We've been waiting for you, Akagi-san.
[07:58] guy
This way, please.
[08:02] guy
This is our second in command, Kurosaki.
[08:09] aka
What is this place?
[08:11] aka
Pretty rotten customer base.
[08:14] kur
They're all my underlings.
[08:18] kur
You're surrounded.
[08:20] kur
You're in a dark hole now.
[08:22] kur
No matter what happens here...
[08:27] aka
You guys are always the same.
[08:30] aka
You can't try to make
deals by threatening me.
[08:34] aka
Get it already!
[08:38] kur
I see.
[08:39] kur
You're just as interesting
as the rumors say you are.
[08:46] kur
All right, I'll give it to you straight.
[08:49] kur
Switch sides.
[08:51] kur
That's the only option you have left.
[08:55] kur
This isn't a threat.
[08:57] kur
The guy we have ready is a
top player in this world.
[09:01] kur
No matter how much of a genius
you are, you will lose, 100%.
[09:06] kur
If you back down now,
we'll even accept your terms.
[09:10] kur
This is your last chance.
[09:12] aka
Terms, huh?
[09:16] aka
Okay then, half.
[09:18] kur
Half of eight million?
[09:20] kur
So four million?
[09:22] aka
You're way off.
[09:24] aka
The half I'm talking about is
half of what your group is worth.
[09:31] aka
I'm planning on ending you guys tonight,
[09:34] aka
so half of what is needed
to ruin your group.
[09:39] aka
I figure that's about 50 million.
[09:41] aka
If you're willing to hand
that over, I'll consider it.
[09:46] kur
Oh boy, I thought you were
a little smarter than that.
[09:51] kur
Fine then, we'll do it
until one of us is crushed.
[09:55] kur
But you're going to die.
[09:57] kur
Are you aware of that?
[10:00] aka
Right back at you.
[10:03] kur
There's no talking to you.
[10:05] aka
Guess the deal's off.
[10:07] aka
Then, I'm outta here.
[10:09] aka
Do you have what you promised?
[10:18] kur
Aren't you in middle school?
[10:19] kur
What do you need that for?
[10:22] aka
I'm involved in a bit of a conflict.
[10:25] aka
These are so useful, especially for
making people drop their tough acts.
[10:31] aka
When faced with this,
they all stop acting.
[10:35] aka
See ya.
[10:48] aka
So that's what you look like.
[10:50] aka
You're my opponent for tonight, right?
[10:54] kur
How did you know?!
[10:56] aka
He's completely different from you.
[10:58] aka
Just around him, the air is colder.
[11:01] aka
It's almost like a fish wandered
into a pack of beasts.
[11:14] aka
Let's see how real your
expressionless face really is.
[11:20] aka
The chance is one in five.
[11:21] guy
You damn brat!
[11:23] kur
Wait, just watch.
[11:44] ichi
Seven to the right.
[11:45] ichi
That's the number of times the
chamber rotated after you put in the bullet.
[11:49] ichi
When the center chamber is loaded,
[11:52] ichi
considering the chamber rotates
once with every trigger pull,
[11:55] ichi
it will fire on the fourth,
ninth, and fourteenth time.
[11:59] ichi
Even an amateur could tell the chamber
rotated between four and nine times.
[12:05] ichi
You pulled the trigger knowing that.
[12:09] ichi
At first glance, it looked reckless,
but it was all calculated.
[12:12] ichi
You might be able to scare normal
people shitless, but it won't work on me.
[12:25] aka
Fun.
[12:26] aka
You're right, this guy is actually
in a different league than Yagi.
[12:31] aka
I'm looking forward to tonight.
[12:33] ichi
I wonder about that.
[12:36] ichi
We don't know if you will
survive until tonight.
[12:40] ichi
We're only half done here.
[12:43] ichi
Am I wrong?
[12:44] ichi
You pointed the gun at me
and pulled the trigger.
[12:48] ichi
Therefore, you must do
the same with yourself.
[12:51] ichi
Only then can we say this is over.
[12:55] ichi
Am I wrong, Akagi-kun?
[13:00] aka
I see.
[13:04] aka
Do as you wish.
[13:05] aka
But you will be pulling the trigger.
[13:08] aka
Then it's truly an eye for an eye.
[13:10] kur
Ichikawa!
[13:11] kur
Don't do something stupid
because the kid taunted you!
[13:15] ichi
In this world, the more stupid,
[13:19] ichi
the more insane things are,
the more fun they are.
[13:26] aka
You...
[13:28] ichi
Yes. I am blind.
[13:32] ichi
When I was young,
I played a game like this.
[13:36] ichi
The gun misfired and I lost my sight.
[13:41] ichi
There you are.
[13:43] ichi
Sorry, you'll have to be patient with me.
[13:49] ichi
I can't aim without doing this.
[13:53] ichi
But now, it's fine.
[13:55] ichi
If the gun fires,
you'll be going straight to Hell.
[13:58] ichi
How do you feel, Akagi-kun?
[14:03] aka
This is fun...
[14:05] aka
The more insane things are,
the more fun they are.
[14:08] kur
Stop it, Ichikawa!
[14:09] kur
What if it actually fires—
[14:11] ichi
It won't!
[14:14] ichi
How could it?
[14:15] ichi
Do you think it's this kid's
fate to die here in vain?
[14:20] ichi
No, that won't happen!
[14:24] ichi
Fate says that it won't fire!
[14:34] ichi
His fate doesn't allow him to die here.
[14:38] aka
Yeah, right.
[14:40] aka
You said it earlier yourself.
[14:42] aka
The chamber rotated seven times.
[14:45] aka
So it would work for another turn.
[14:48] aka
Your hearing is your lifeline.
[14:50] aka
There's no way that you would mishear.
[14:54] aka
You don't believe in luck or fate.
[14:57] aka
What you believe in is your own ears.
[15:00] aka
Only your own, superior ability.
[15:03] aka
Am I wrong?
[15:08] aka
To be honest, I'm like that, too.
[15:19] nan
Akagi!
[15:21] nan
Are you okay?
[15:23] aka
Yeah, not a scratch on me, see?
[15:25] nan
Y-Yeah...
[15:27] nan
Whew, that's a relief.
[15:35] aka
One of my kind?
[15:39] aka
No, there's no one like me.
[15:44] aka
Akagi?
[15:46] aka
Him or me... one of us is the fake.
[15:49] aka
The fake outlaw.
SIGN Restaurant Sasagawa
SIGN Boss of the Takeyoshi Group
SIGN Miyauchi
[16:00] nar
The witness, Miyauchi,
boss of the Takeyoshi Group, arrives.
[16:06] nan
He's late.
[16:10] yas
What's Akagi doing?!
[16:12] yas
It's about to begin!
[16:13] nan
That's weird.
[16:15] nan
Everything seemed fine when the
Kawada group summoned him earlier.
[16:20] yas
Could he have been kidnapped by them?!
[16:23] nan
N-No way!
[16:42] kid
I'm surprised you actually came.
[16:48] kid
I'm glad you came.
[16:50] kid
I really am!
[16:56] kid2
Hey, not the head!
[16:58] kid2
He'll die!
[17:00] kid
Who gives a shit if this asshole dies?
[17:06] kid
Do you know what happened to Takeru?
[17:10] aka
Who?
[17:11] kid
The one you played chicken with.
[17:14] kid
He barely survived, but they don't
know if he will ever fully recover.
[17:22] aka
One mistake and that
would have been me.
[17:25] kid
You're so damn cocky!
[17:27] kid
I bet you think we won't
do anything serious to you.
[17:31] kid
Unfortunately, you thought wrong!
[17:33] kid
If you die, I'll worry about it then!
[17:37] kid
I'm still a minor.
[17:39] kid
Killing someone won't mean anything.
[17:42] kid
Come on, kid, fight me!
[17:46] aka
It's not enough.
[17:48] aka
Even as a minor, killing three
people will have consequences.
[17:54] aka
I need enough injuries so I can
claim I acted in self defense.
[17:59] kid
What did you just say?
[18:01] kid
Well? What did you say?!
[18:03] kid
What did you say?!
[18:07] kid
You little shit!
[18:09] kid
Die!
[18:10] guy2
Stop it!
[18:13] guy2
You have to apologize!
[18:15] guy2
You don't know what he'll do if he snaps!
[18:18] guy2
Apologize!
[18:21] kid
Let's kill this asshole!
[18:36] kid3
What is that?!
[18:38] kid2
It's a gun!
[18:39] kid2
A gun!
[18:58] aka
Did you come to again?
[19:04] aka
Saying "Let's kill this asshole!"
[19:06] aka
means you won't mind if
you get killed yourself.
[19:10] aka
Right?
[19:12] kid
Stop, please stop!
[19:14] aka
Don't move.
[19:15] aka
My finger is on the trigger.
[19:19] aka
When I was a kid, I squished a bug.
[19:24] aka
I feel the same now as I did then.
[19:31] kid
S-Sto—
[19:35] aka
Not enough.
[19:51] aka
Get out of here.
[19:53] aka
You piss me off.
[19:56] aka
I'll kill you.
[20:09] aka
I'm not going to put myself at
risk for little idiots like you.
[20:13] aka
I only put two bullets in to begin with.
[20:18] aka
Fake anger.
[20:19] aka
Fake words.
[20:20] aka
Fake fights.
[20:23] aka
I'm sick of all that.
[20:26] aka
Those kinds of games
will never be enough me.
[20:30] aka
They will never satisfy my soul.
[20:32] (Flashback) yas
The match is on Friday at 8 PM.
[20:35] (Flashback) yas
It'll be at a restaurant in
Akasaka called Sasagawa.
[20:50] aka
I guess I'll go...
[20:52] aka
...to walk the true line between
life and death once more.
[20:56] nar
This is what happened
on the day of the match.
[20:59] nar
But it was nothing but a side show.
[21:03] nar
Akagi would experience a true
fight to the death that night...
[22:16] nar
Next time: "The Treacherous Tse Ii Men."
SIGN Next Episode
SIGN The Treacherous Tse Ii Men
5 - The Treacherous Tse Ii Men
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[01:12] Nar
The Kawada yakuza group and Akagi
are about to hold a Mahjong rematch.
[01:18] Nar
Today's rematch for eight
million will take place here.
[01:23] Nar
Akagi's opponent is the
blind master Ichikawa.
[01:27] Nar
However, Akagi has still not
arrived at the match location.
[01:33] Nan
He's late.
[01:34] Nan
It's already past the agreed time.
[01:37] Nan
Why isn't he here?
[01:40] Cop
We'll just have to start without him.
[01:41] Nan
We can't do that!
[01:43] Nan
Can't we get them to postpone?
[01:45] Cop
No, we can't.
[01:47] Cop
Everything has been set up,
[01:48] Cop
and Boss Miyauchi himself
has come all the way here.
[01:51] Cop
We can't put it off.
[01:53] Nan
But there's no way I can beat him!
[01:57] Cop
We may be no match for him,
but there is a way.
SIGN Episode 5
SIGN The Treacherous Tse Ii Men
[02:07] Nar
Two new rules were added to this battle.
[02:11] Nan
1 of bamboo!
[02:13] Nar
In consideration for Ichikawa's blindness,
[02:16] Nar
the other three players must call
out whatever tile they are discarding.
[02:21] Nar
And at the end of each East-South match,
[02:23] Nar
if either Ichikawa or Akagi
still have points left,
[02:24] Nar
the game will continue into
the West and North rounds.
[02:28] Nar
That's right.
[02:29] Nar
This is a death match that will
continue until one of them goes bust.
SIGN - East Hand 1 -
[02:33] Nar
East Hand 1.
[02:34] Nar
Nangou is the North player.
[02:36] (Flashback) Cop
Nangou-san, let's lay
down our ground rules.
[02:40] (Flashback) Cop
Basically, just play it straight,
[02:42] (Flashback) Cop
and as soon as you have a
two-way wait, declare riichi.
[02:47] (Flashback) Cop
A tactic that mostly aims
for self-drawn wins.
[02:49] (Flashback) Cop
Don't count on other players
to deal into your hand.
[02:52] Nan
8 of circles!
[02:53] (Flashback) Cop
As long as you don't waver,
we still have a shot at winning.
[03:00] Nan
It's still a closed wait.
[03:01] Nan
I've got to make it a two-way wait.
[03:03] Nan
8 of characters!
[03:06] Nan
I've got a two-way wait!
[03:08] Nan
3 of circles!
[03:08] Nan
Riichi!
[03:14] Nan
Pinfu tsumo, 7 of circles!
[03:18] Nar
At the very beginning,
Nangou was blessed with luck.
[03:21] Nar
Tsumo!
[03:22] Nar
Tanpin, one dora!
[03:24] Nar
He wins twice in a row.
[03:25] Nar
At this point, Nangou has 38,200 points.
[03:29] Nar
Ichikawa has 20,400.
[03:31] Nar
An amateur like Nangou
[03:33] Nar
overtaking a pro like Ichikawa
is an unexpected development.
[03:35] Nar
But it only lasted until East Hand 2.
[03:39] Nar
Ichikawa had already seen
through this strategy.
SIGN - Next Hand -
[03:46] Nan
I have to get a two-way wait.
[03:50] Nan
1 of characters!
[03:51] Ichi
Ron.
[03:55] Nan
He had a single 1 of characters wait?
[03:58] Nan
That's crazy.
[04:00] Nan
With his discards,
[04:02] Nan
he'd have had an ideal tanpin sanshoku
if he'd kept the 4 of characters.
[04:05] Nan
But he deliberately threw that away
for a single 1 of characters wait?
[04:08] Nan
He can foresee which tiles I'll discard
[04:10] Nan
to get out of my closed wait,
and he's gunning for those.
[04:12] Nan
He's going after the tiles that'll
be left over after midgame...
[04:15] Nan
He's onto our strategy.
[04:19] Nan
And it only took him two hands!
[04:22] Nar
And then, it was East Hand 4.
SIGN - East Hand 4 -
[04:27] Nan
What should I do?
[04:29] Cop
Nangou!
[04:30] Cop
If you waver now,
you're playing into his hand!
[04:33] Ichi
This man is like every other
man I've killed up until now.
[04:38] Ichi
He is the same species.
[04:40] Ichi
When amateurs play against us,
[04:42] Ichi
they usually follow one of two strategies.
[04:46] Ichi
They declare riichi the
moment they're in tenpai,
[04:47] Ichi
or they go for a two-way wait,
relying on self-drawn wins.
[04:51] Ichi
He chose the latter.
[04:54] Ichi
So all I have to do is pick off
the tiles he gets rid of
[04:57] Ichi
from his closed waits.
[05:01] Nar
The tenth turn.
[05:02] Nar
If Nangou discards the 9 of
characters, he'll be in tenpai.
[05:06] Nan
Ichikawa is aiming for
numbered tiles on the edges.
[05:09] Nan
I can't discard this 9 of characters.
[05:11] Nan
So what?
[05:13] Nan
I have no choice.
[05:15] Nan
West wind!
[05:16] Ichi
Ron.
[05:21] Ichi
Chiitoitsu, with a single west wind wait!
[05:24] Ichi
It can't be!
[05:25] Nar
It's a game neither Nangou nor
Yasuoka can afford to lose.
[05:31] Nar
But now they are in the
worst possible position.
[05:37] Nar
They only have 2,000 points left.
[05:40] Nar
If they lose them, it's all over.
[05:45] Nan
I'm up against the wall.
[05:47] man
Green dragon!
[05:48] man
Pon!
[05:51] man
7 of circles!
[05:52] man
Chi!
[05:55] nan
Now or never!
[05:58] Ichi
On the offensive again?
[06:00] Ichi
A noble effort, but too little too late.
[06:04] Ichi
If you wanted to win,
[06:05] Ichi
you should've played like that
from the very first hand.
[06:11] nar
Nangou is also aware that
his efforts are futile.
[06:14] nar
However, regardless of this knowledge,
[06:17] nar
he has no choice but to press on.
[06:20] Man
1 of circles.
[06:21] Nan
Pon!
[06:22] Nar
The eleventh turn.
[06:23] Nar
Nangou has called three
times and is now in tenpai.
[06:26] Nar
He's waiting on the red dragon.
[06:28] Nar
His tenpai is like a beam of light
momentarily penetrating the clouds.
[06:31] Nan
4 of circles!
[06:32] man
Chi!
[06:35] nan
He's in tenpai, huh?
[06:39] Ichi
Riichi.
[06:43] Man
Riichi!
[06:46] Nar
All this happened in one turn.
[06:50] Nar
The momentary beam of light disappeared,
[06:52] Nar
suffocated by the dark clouds.
[06:55] Nan
They're both in riichi...
[06:56] Nan
And the guy after me is
probably going for a honitsu.
[06:59] Nan
I've only got these four tiles...
Not enough to dodge their bullets.
[07:04] Nan
All I have left is to win.
[07:07] Nan
If I draw my winning tile now, I'll be fine!
[07:11] Nar
Nangou prays with all his might.
[07:14] Nar
He reaches towards the wall
[07:15] Nar
as if to ask the goddess of
victory to shake his hand.
[07:20] Nar
However...
[07:22] Nar
The hand he ends up grabbing
is that of the Grim Reaper.
[07:24] Nar
The dora, the white dragon.
[07:27] Nar
Now every tile in his hand is risky.
[07:34] Nar
The white and red dragons are risky
[07:35] Nar
because Ichikawa is going for honor tiles,
[07:37] Nar
and the player after him is going for a honitsu.
[07:40] Nar
The 3, 4, and 5 of circles are dangerous
because of the player after him
[07:42] Nar
and the one before him, who's declared riichi.
[07:50] Nan
What should I discard?
[07:53] Nan
Discarding any of these is akin to suicide.
[07:56] Nan
It's basically the same
as jumping off of a cliff.
[08:00] Nan
It's no use... I can't choose.
[08:11] Nan
Could that be....
[08:17] Nan
Akagi!
[08:19] Man
That's him, Boss.
[08:26] Cop
What took you so long, Akagi?
[08:29] Aka
Nangou-san, want to switch?
[08:31] Nan
Yes!
[08:39] Aka
2,000 points left.
[08:41] Aka
Two people are in riichi
and these are your tiles.
[08:44] Aka
Talk about being in a
tight spot, Nangou-san.
[08:47] Nan
Yeah...
[08:48] Aka
Well, in this situation, this is all we can do.
[08:53] Nan
Akagi, that's really...
[08:56] Aka
It's fine, just be quiet.
[08:58] Aka
I'm going to make this tile pass.
[09:02] Aka
Definitely.
[09:09] Nar
Just then, Ichikawa was
in a double pon wait
[09:13] Nar
for a white or a red dragon.
[09:17] Ichi
What did you discard, Akagi?
[09:21] Man
It's a west wind.
[09:25] Nan
That's impossible!
[09:26] Nan
A west wind?
[09:29] Cop
What happened to that red dragon?
[09:32] Cop
I could've sworn he discarded the red dragon.
[09:35] Cop
This brat bumped it!
[09:38] Cop
He sensed that both the white and
red dragons were winning tiles,
[09:42] Cop
so at the last moment,
with everybody's eyes on him,
[09:45] Nar
he bumped the west wind down
while discarding the red dragon!
[09:49] Nar
This is a sleight-of-hand that makes it
appear as if the west wind is discarded
[09:54] Nar
by pushing it down with the
red dragon tile as he discards it.
[09:59] Nar
What is so useful about this
cheat is that it also allows one
[10:02] Nar
to get rid of the dreaded
red dragon at the same time.
[10:05] Nar
The tricks kills two birds
with one stone instantly.
[10:09] Cop
Unbelievable.
[10:10] Cop
This is the first thing he does
in such a major match.
[10:12] Cop
He's pure evil!
[10:18] Aka
Looks like it passed.
[10:21] Aka
I will do whatever it takes.
[10:23] Aka
Let's take a little trip
down to Hell, Nangou-san.
[10:27] Aka
The goddess of luck lies
in wait beyond there.
[10:36] Aka
Here it comes.
[10:38] Aka
It's time for our counterattack.
[10:41] Aka
Tsumo.
[10:43] Cop
It came!
[10:44] Cop
Akagi!
[10:50] Nar
Akagi's back from the
dead with a dora tsumo.
[10:52] Nar
In one shot, he's managed to get
his point box back to 16,000.
[10:56] Nar
And now, he has a dealer streak.
[10:58] Aka
We're playing until either Ichikawa
or I completely run out of points?
[11:01] Cop
Yeah.
[11:02] Cop
So you're the last dealer of South Hand 4,
[11:05] Cop
but that doesn't mean it's the last hand.
[11:09] Aka
Which means I can't win unless
I get a direct hit on Ichikawa.
[11:16] Aka
Still, for now I should focus
on getting some points.
[11:19] Aka
Easy points to start.
[11:21] Nar
As expected, the players before and
after him do not take any risks.
[11:26] Nar
They're only taking part in this
high-stake match to fill the table,
[11:29] Nar
and their mindset is easy to discern.
[11:31] Nar
Their only concern is to stay inconspicuous.
[11:34] Nar
They do all they can to avoid
dealing into anyone's hand
[11:36] Nar
and stay out of the conflict.
[11:38] Nar
Akagi takes advantage of this
mindset with extreme ease.
[11:43] Aka
Riichi.
[11:45] Nar
Against these people,
hinting at a tanpin,
[11:48] Nar
while actually having a
hell wait, is quite effective.
[11:51] Nar
From there, they'll step
into the trap themselves.
[11:56] Shimo
Green dragon!
[11:57] Aka
Ron.
[11:59] Aka
Riichi, ippatsu, iipeikou.
SIGN Ippatsu - Winning in the turn after declaring riichi. Iipeikou - Double sequence in the same suit, e.g. 223344.
[12:01] Aka
There's an ura dora, too,
so that's a dealer mangan.
[12:05] Aka
Now I've got 28,300.
[12:07] Aka
I'm safe for now.
[12:09] Nar
Then, in the next hand...
[12:10] Aka
Chi.
[12:13] Aka
Pon.
[12:14] Aka
Kan.
[12:16] Shimo
Four dora!
[12:22] Man
Damn, he's lucky.
[12:24] Guy
8 of bamboo.
[12:25] Aka
Kan.
[12:29] Aka
Kan.
[12:31] Aka
1 of bamboo.
[12:32] Man
What kind of game is he playing?!
[12:35] Man
No one could've expected him
to get so many yaku!
[12:38] Man2
What is this?
[12:39] Man2
He's been calling tiles like crazy,
and now, he's up to a haneman.
[12:43] Man2
6 of bamboo.
[12:45] Man
Safe tile.
[12:47] Aka
As expected, he's given up on winning.
[12:50] Aka
Can't wait to see what he does
when the safe tiles run out.
[12:54] Man
What's this kid waiting for?
[12:58] Man
The 1 of bamboo is a live tile.
SIGN Live tile - Tile that has not yet been discarded this hand.
[13:00] Man
It's the perfect tile to keep for a tsumo win.
[13:02] Man
But if he discarded it, does that
mean he wants a ron win?
[13:06] Man
But then, that means I can't discard
any of these character or honor tiles.
[13:11] Man
These bamboo or circle tiles
might be a better choice.
[13:15] Nar
The more he agonizes, the more
he plays into Akagi's plan.
[13:18] Nar
Assuming from the discarded 1 of
bamboo that Akagi wants a ron win,
[13:21] Nar
he can't discard the character or honor
tiles that Akagi knows he's holding.
[13:25] Nar
Which leaves the bamboo or circle tiles.
[13:28] Nar
But in this situation, their strategy
[13:30] Nar
is to discard from a pair or a triplet.
SIGN Pair Triplet
[13:33] Nar
Then, if they survive one discard,
they'll have two or three safe turns.
[13:36] Nar
So, what tiles have they accumulated?
[13:39] Nar
With the 4 of circles tiles used up,
[13:40] Nar
tiles like the 3 of circles can no
longer be used for sequences.
[13:42] Nar
The same goes for the tiles around
the 8 of bamboo, namely the 7 and 9.
[13:47] Nar
In any case, there is no surefire
way to avoid a single wait.
[13:53] Aka
Come on.
[13:54] Aka
I'll take it.
[13:57] Nar
Is Akagi's insight actually
pulling the tile towards him?
[14:00] Nar
Or is this the work of something
entirely different, something demonic?
[14:04] Nar
He will discard it.
[14:07] Nar
As if possessed...
[14:09] Man
3 of circles.
[14:13] Aka
Ron.
[14:14] Aka
San kantsu, four dora.
SIGN San kantsu - A hand of three kans.
[14:15] Aka
Haneman.
[14:17] Nan
He did it!
[14:19] Nan
He's at 46,900.
[14:21] Cop
You did it, Akagi!
[14:23] Cop
You're truly a genius.
[14:25] Cop
We can always count on you.
[14:27] Aka
There's still one big nuisance
sitting across from me.
[14:31] Aka
We can celebrate once I've
properly crushed him.
[14:34] Ichi
You're a ballsy kid.
[14:36] Ichi
You took out the small fry,
and you built up a stash of points.
[14:40] Ichi
I guess it's time for the main event, eh?
[14:44] Aka
I guess so.
[14:46] Aka
I'm going to take you out.
[14:50] Nar
It's a match between Ichikawa and Akagi.
[14:53] Nar
A death match that will continue
until one of them loses all of his points.
[14:58] Nar
He needs to get a direct
hit off of Ichikawa...
[15:02] Nar
A near-impossible task.
[15:05] Nar
This is where the match really begins.
[15:07] Nar
And this is Akagi's first discard.
[15:10] Aka
3 of circles.
[15:11] Cop
Huh?
[15:15] Cop
He's discarding the 3 of circles
from a hand like that?
[15:17] Cop
Why?
[15:18] Nar
And again, on the second turn.
[15:20] Nar
And on the third turn.
[15:22] Nar
Three 3 of circles discards in a row.
[15:26] Nar
No one can understand
what he's trying to do.
[15:28] Nar
But Ichikawa alone understands.
[15:34] Boss
Hey, hey, what are you doing?
[15:40] Cop
I get it!
[15:41] Cop
He determined that it'll be
[15:42] Cop
too difficult to get direct hits
off each other in a normal game,
[15:45] Cop
so he is purging an entire
suit from his hand on purpose.
[15:50] Cop
Akagi threw down the gauntlet,
and Ichikawa accepted his challenge.
SIGN Tse Ii Men
[15:54] Nar
Purging an entire suit, Tse Ii Men...
[15:57] Nar
Known in Japanese as "zetsu ichimon."
[15:59] Nar
Once both players eliminate
one suit from their hands,
[16:02] Nar
the tiles left when one is in tenpai will
naturally be from the other two suits.
[16:07] Nar
Usually the players end up
trading blows until one falls.
[16:10] Nar
Essentially, it's Mahjong
where you can't run away.
[16:13] Nar
Comparatively, regular
Mahjong is like out-boxing.
[16:18] Nar
While you fight, you keep
an escape route ready.
[16:21] Nar
But a zetsu ichimon game is
like in-fighting at close range,
[16:26] Nar
with both your feet planted.
[16:28] Boss
This is insane.
[16:30] Boss
Ignoring the circles right from the start...
[16:33] Boss
They're going to be waiting on
bamboo or character tiles.
[16:36] Nar
But on the 13th turn...
[16:39] Aka
2 of circles.
[16:41] Nar
Akagi discards a 2 of circles from his hand.
[16:44] Boss
Why is he discarding a
2 of circles from his hand now?
[16:46] Boss
Wait... I see.
[16:50] Boss
He was trying to play us from the start!
[16:53] Boss
In a zetsu ichimon game,
one suit gets purged,
[16:56] Boss
so that suit inevitably becomes safe.
[17:00] Boss
But if he uses that principle against us
[17:03] Boss
and waits long enough,
there's no better camouflage.
[17:06] Boss
He was saving his 2 of circles for that.
[17:09] Boss
But the next player has
already discarded one,
[17:11] Boss
and the previous player two,
eliminating all of them.
[17:15] Boss
He had no choice but to give up
on his single 2 of circles wait.
[17:18] Boss
Now he's probably in a multi-sided
wait for a bamboo or character tile.
[17:22] Boss
Man, you can't let your
guard down with this kid.
[17:32] Aka
Ron.
[17:33] Aka
Ittsuu, one dora.
SIGN Ittsuu - Full straight, 1-9 of one suit.
[17:34] Aka
Three consecutive wins, so 8,600.
[17:37] Boss
A single 1 of circles wait?!
[17:39] Boss
How could he wait on that?!
[17:41] Boss
He just won't go down.
[17:43] Boss
He pretended to give up his single
wait by discarding the 2 of circles,
[17:46] Boss
but was still concealing another
single wait for a circle tile!
[17:50] Boss
This is demonic... This isn't
something a kid could come up with!
[17:55] Nar
In their first zetsu ichimon match,
Akagi outfoxes Ichikawa.
[18:01] Nar
It's an auspicious start.
[18:03] Nar
This was the start of their
[18:05] Nar
zetsu ichimon battle that
had no end in sight...
[18:09] Nar
Akagi continues to masterfully
[18:10] Nar
utilize waits that circumvent
the principles of zetsu ichimon.
[18:14] Nar
At first, it seems that
Ichikawa is being played
[18:17] Nar
by Akagi's varied and
unpredictable playing style,
[18:20] Nar
but that is not the case.
[18:23] Ichi
Tsumo.
[18:24] Nar
Ichikawa is orthodox.
[18:26] Nar
He does not insist on a direct hit on Akagi.
[18:30] Nar
He frequently calls tsumo.
[18:33] Nar
And then...
[18:35] Nar
The fate of zetsu ichimon...
[18:37] Nar
The inevitable outflow of certain tiles...
[18:40] Aka
2 of circles.
[18:42] Ichi
Ron.
[18:43] Nar
He's out to kill.
[18:45] Ichi
Tanpin, two dora, mangan.
[18:48] Nar
They were both playing
zetsu ichimon matches,
[18:51] Nar
but their playing styles couldn't
have been more different.
[18:54] Nar
Akagi favors change, while Ichikawa
prefers to stay true to the basics.
[19:00] Nar
But eventually, the gap widens...
[19:07] Aka
9 of characters.
[19:08] Ichi
Ron.
[19:11] Ichi
Pinfu, iipeikou, two dora.
[19:16] Ichi
Mangan.
[19:18] Nan
No problem.
[19:20] Nan
It's no biggie.
[19:22] Nan
That much is expected in
a game of zetsu ichimon.
[19:23] Cop
I don't think so, Nangou-san.
[19:28] Cop
Akagi is suffering.
[19:31] Cop
I thought that too, in the beginning,
[19:34] Cop
but now, Ichikawa is the
one with the points.
[19:41] Cop
They've both won the
same amount of times,
[19:44] Cop
but the value of each win is different.
[19:46] Cop
It's only natural, considering that
Akagi mostly uses irregular waits
[19:48] Cop
that make his hands worth less.
[19:51] Cop
Meanwhile, Ichikawa is
constantly building his hands
[19:54] Cop
on wins that mean much more in Mahjong.
[19:57] Cop
True, his style isn't
exciting, but he wins big.
[20:02] Cop
In a straight race for points,
there's no way Akagi can win.
[20:07] Cop
He's letting Akagi stand in the spotlight,
[20:08] Cop
while reaping the profits for himself.
[20:11] Aka
3 of characters.
[20:12] Ichi
Ron.
[20:13] Ichi
Tanpin, sanshoku.
[20:16] Ichi
Mangan.
[20:19] Ichi
That's right.
[20:21] Ichi
Have you realized it now, Akagi-kun?
[20:24] Ichi
It's nonsensical to scheme
elaborate waits in zetsu ichimon.
[20:27] Ichi
What needs to flow out
will flow out regardless.
[20:31] Ichi
I'll leave the skillful Mahjong to you.
[20:35] Ichi
I don't mind being unskilled...
[20:37] Ichi
I'll just win.
[20:39] Ichi
Since you prefer that kind of
showy style, you can't beat me.
[20:44] Ichi
To defeat me, you'd have to
overturn the most basic rules
[20:48] Ichi
of Mahjong itself, and not
even God can do that.
[20:51] Nar
Ichikawa is unaffected by
Akagi's aggressive attacks.
[20:56] Nar
He is truly like an impregnable fortress.
[20:59] Nar
Akagi seems to be caught
in his own trap...
[21:03] Nar
Does he have a plan to get to victory?
SIGN Next Time: "The Picaro's Talent."
SIGN Next Episode
SIGN The Picaro's Talent
6 - The Picaro's Talent
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[01:12] Nar
When Akagi and Ichikawa first
started their zetsu ichimon game,
[01:15] Nar
they appeared evenly matched,
[01:17] Nar
but now it is becoming
clear who is superior.
[01:20] Nar
Ichikawa now has more
than 100,000 points.
[01:24] Nar
On the other hand, Akagi is steadily
losing points and now stands at 23,000.
[01:29] Nar
Ichikawa takes that opportunity
to change his play style.
[01:33] Nar
He gives up on tsumo wins
[01:34] Nar
and focuses on getting direct
hit wins off of Akagi.
[01:37] Nar
He's going in for the kill.
SIGN Episode 6
SIGN The Picaro's Talent
[01:48] Boss
We've reached the first turning point.
[01:51] Boss
Will Ichikawa deal a finishing blow,
or will Akagi make a comeback?
[01:58] Boss
They're both going for a one suit hand?
[02:00] Boss
I see, I see.
[02:02] Boss
It's not zetsu ichimon anymore;
it's zetsu nimon, eliminating two suits.
[02:05] Boss
It'll be interesting to watch them
both go for a characters chinitsu.
[02:09] nar
If zetsu ichimon is like boxing's in-fighting,
[02:13] nar
then zetsu nimon is like grappling.
[02:15] nar
It's as if they have their hands
on each other's throats
[02:17] nar
and are slowly tightening their grips.
[02:19] nar
The one who can't hold out any longer
and coughs up the ron tile first dies.
[02:25] Cop
Akagi, isn't that a little reckless?
[02:28] Cop
Luck isn't on your side right now.
[02:31] Cop
Ichikawa's much more likely
to get his winning tile
[02:34] Cop
than you are to get yours.
[02:36] Nar
Yasuoka's hypothesis was correct.
[02:39] Nar
Akagi has no momentum right now.
Everything is in Ichikawa's favor.
[02:45] Nar
The seventh turn.
[02:49] Nar
Ichikawa is in tenpai.
[02:50] Nar
He's waiting for a 3, 6, or 9 of characters.
[02:52] Boss
Looks like Ichikawa might be the winner...
[02:56] Boss
He's in tenpai with a concealed
dora triplet of red dragons
[02:59] Boss
and an ideal three-way wait,
so early in the game.
[03:02] Boss
Akagi's miles away.
[03:04] Guy
Kan!
[03:07] Guy
The new dora is the 6 of characters.
[03:10] Guy
Riichi!
[03:11] Nar
In the same round,
[03:12] Nar
not just the dealer, but the
South player is also in tenpai.
[03:15] Nar
They've caught up with no delay.
[03:17] Nar
It looks as though the match
may end here in the seventh turn.
[03:22] Nar
But...
[03:23] Nar
Just then, Akagi's hand
is still at this stage.
[03:26] Nar
You may say he's one tile
away from a chiitoitsu,
[03:29] Nar
but the 9 of characters that he must
[03:31] Nar
discard for that happens to
be Ichikawa's winning tile.
[03:34] Nar
Akagi senses that this tile is dangerous.
[03:37] Nar
And then...
[03:38] Aka
Chi.
[03:40] Nar
With this call, he manages to secure one
9 of characters tile in a sequence.
[03:45] Nar
This way, he's not likely to have to discard
the remaining 6 or 9 of characters.
[03:48] Nar
Akagi's sharp insight shines as this
remarkable play gets him out of danger.
[03:53] Nar
But Ichikawa is also privy to this strategy.
[03:56] Nar
He can read Akagi's moves precisely.
[03:59] Ichi
He won't discard the 3, 6, or 9 now.
[04:03] Man
5 of characters.
[04:04] Ichi
Chi.
[04:05] Nar
Now Ichikawa's waiting for
a 2, 5 or 8 of characters.
[04:10] Nar
He changes his wait to the 8 of characters
[04:12] Nar
that Akagi is most likely to discard next.
[04:14] Nar
He chases him down.
[04:15] Nar
As his target moves, so does he.
[04:19] Nar
Like a homing missile.
[04:23] Man
7 of characters!
[04:23] Aka
Chi.
[04:25] Nar
With that move, he's used up
his 8 of characters,
[04:27] Nar
and he discards the 9 of characters.
[04:30] Nar
He's sidestepped Ichikawa's
waits once again.
[04:33] Nar
The ninth turn.
[04:35] Nar
The South player deals the 2 of characters.
[04:37] Nar
This is one of Ichikawa's winning tiles.
[04:39] Nar
Yet he doesn't move.
[04:41] Nar
He will hold out for a
direct hit off of Akagi.
[04:45] Aka
Pon.
[04:47] Nar
With this call, Akagi has
now caught up to Ichikawa.
[04:49] Nar
He managed to worm out of Ichikawa's
waits and get into tenpai himself.
[04:53] Nar
He's waiting on the
1 and 4 of characters.
[04:56] Nar
Now Ichikawa faces another decision.
[05:00] Ichi
Akagi took care of his
3, 6, and 9 of characters,
[05:02] Ichi
as well as his 2, 5, and 8 of characters.
[05:05] Ichi
Therefore, all that's left in his hand
now are 1, 4 and 7 of characters.
[05:10] Ichi
Our waits are the same.
[05:12] Nar
Ichikawa's waiting on the
1, 4 and 7 of characters.
[05:15] Nar
He chases Akagi for the third time.
[05:17] Nar
Akagi waits for the 1 and 4 of characters.
[05:19] Nar
The waits are similar,
[05:21] Nar
but Ichikawa has a slight
advantage since his wait
[05:22] Nar
also includes the 7 of characters.
[05:29] Nar
Akagi's drawn the worst tile,
the 7 of characters dora.
[05:37] Ichi
Looks like you got it.
[05:39] Aka
4 of characters.
[05:41] Ichi
Ron!
[05:42] Ichi
Dealer haneman. 18,000.
[05:46] Ichi
I finally got you, Akagi.
[05:58] Nan
We're dead.
[05:59] Cop
I guess Ichikawa's too much for him...
[06:02] Boss
I wouldn't say that.
[06:04] Boss
Indeed, Ichikawa's persistence
as he hunted down
[06:07] Boss
Akagi's tiles made for an excellent game.
[06:09] Boss
His tenacity and intuition are superhuman.
[06:12] Boss
However, Akagi's game was
not worse, by any means.
[06:15] Boss
In fact, in terms of impressiveness,
his game may have surpassed Ichikawa's.
[06:20] cop
What exactly do you mean?
[06:25] Boss
This last hand, Akagi consistently
dodged Ichikawa's waits,
[06:29] Boss
and finally managed to get himself
into a 1 or 4 of characters wait tenpai.
[06:32] Boss
If you had drawn the 7 of characters
then, what would you have done?
[06:36] Cop
Huh? Well...
[06:38] Boss
Figuring that the 1 and 4 of
characters are his winning tiles,
[06:40] Boss
wouldn't you have discarded the 7?
[06:43] Boss
Most people would try to
preserve their tenpai,
[06:46] Boss
hoping for that tiny chance of it passing.
[06:50] Boss
But Akagi didn't try to pursue
that small chance.
[06:56] Boss
If he'd discarded the 7 of characters dora,
[06:58] Boss
Ichikawa would've had a baiman
and Akagi would've gone bust.
[07:03] Boss
His tenacity is truly astonishing.
[07:05] Boss
Would a normal person
even consider all that?
[07:09] Boss
And even if they considered it,
[07:10] Boss
would they be able to resist the
temptation to maintain their tenpai?
[07:13] Boss
Akagi did just that!
[07:16] Boss
Chasing after something as ephemeral
as "if" will never bring you victory.
[07:21] Boss
I can hear Akagi's will, clear as any voice,
from the 7 of characters he kept.
[07:28] Cop
Akagi...
[07:30] Nar
Winning is something that happens in reality.
[07:34] Nar
Without pursuing reality,
there is no way to win.
[07:38] Nar
Akagi dealt into someone's
hand, but left his will behind.
[07:41] Nar
The will to win in reality.
[07:46] Nar
The game is not favoring Akagi right now.
[07:48] Nar
He may have limited the loss to a haneman,
[07:50] Nar
but drawing the winning
tile itself was bad luck.
[07:53] Nar
It's obvious that the game
is favoring Ichikawa.
[07:56] Nar
Akagi has 5,000 points,
and that's all he has.
[08:00] Nar
It may just end here.
[08:02] Nan
I'm sorry, Akagi.
[08:04] Nan
I understand that this player
is out of your league.
[08:08] Nan
But you've always overturned
accepted notions like those.
[08:12] Nan
You're a genius, no questioning that.
[08:14] Nan
Please...
[08:15] Nan
show me one last time...
[08:17] Nan
an escape from this dilemma.
[08:19] Nan
We need some miracle tiles!
[08:22] Nan
Akagi!
[08:25] Nan
What a crap hand!
[08:28] Nan
He might as well keep the terminal and
honor tiles and go for a kokushi musou.
SIGN Kokushi musou: Yakuman hand with one of each terminal and honor tile, plus one tile that matches any of the other 13.
[08:32] Nan
The luck just isn't on his side right now.
[08:35] Nan
The luck...
[08:38] Boss
I knew it.
[08:40] Boss
There's no way we can expect Akagi
[08:41] Boss
to get a decent hand
under these circumstances.
[08:50] Boss
That's an amazing hand.
[08:52] Boss
Two dora to boot.
[08:54] Boss
With a tsumo win, he could
get up to a haneman.
[08:56] Boss
And he's only two tiles
away from tenpai already.
[08:59] Boss
It's the complete opposite
of Akagi's starting tiles.
[09:02] Boss
Who could've predicted
such a huge difference?
[09:05] Boss
If Ichikawa wins with a haneman,
[09:06] Boss
he'll get 6,000 from each
player as the dealer.
[09:09] Boss
Akagi will have to give up his
last 5,000 points and die.
[09:13] Boss
And that will be the end.
[09:16] Nan
Damn it!
[09:18] Nan
Even his draws are complete shit.
[09:20] Nan
It's the sixth turn and he's still got nothing!
[09:23] Nan
I guess there's nothing he can do...
[09:25] Cop
No.
[09:26] Cop
He's on it already.
[09:27] Nan
Huh?
[09:32] Nan
Looking at Akagi's discard pile...
[09:34] Nan
That's it!
[09:36] Nan
I see what he's getting at...
[09:38] Nan
He's hinting at a kokushi musou
or a chinitsu to tie their hands.
[09:42] Man
Riichi!
[09:45] Nan
It's hopeless.
[09:46] Nan
No one sees him as a threat right now.
[09:49] Nan
His attempt was totally ineffective.
[09:51] Nan
His final effort failed. Is this the end?
[09:58] bos
5 of characters?
[09:59] yas
That's right by the dora!
[10:01] nan
Have you gone insane?!
[10:04] Nar
Dealing into another player's
hand right now is fatal,
[10:06] Nar
yet Akagi makes a bold move.
[10:08] Nar
And again on the next turn...
[10:11] Nar
He discards a 4 of characters dora,
making two consecutive reckless moves.
[10:15] Nan
This is crazy.
[10:18] Boss
I get it.
[10:19] Boss
Akagi's betting his life on this bluff.
[10:23] Nar
These character tiles are exactly
what the player in riichi wants.
[10:26] Nar
Akagi was ready to face death when
he discarded those two tiles.
[10:30] Nar
His hand is in shambles.
[10:33] Nar
At first, it seems foolish to bet
his life on a trash hand like this.
[10:37] Nar
However, that's precisely what is
needed in order to deceive others.
[10:42] Nar
People are always disoriented by
actions that seem counterproductive.
[10:45] Nar
How can you ever fool anyone
without risking anything yourself?
[10:49] Nar
Akagi's boldness plants
doubt in his opponents.
[10:53] Nar
Doubt gives way to delusions,
and delusions give birth to fear.
[10:57] Nar
To them, his trash hand no
longer looks like a trash hand.
[11:05] Nar
With this one discard,
[11:06] Nar
Akagi's bluff now controls the entire table.
[11:09] Nar
The next player gives up on winning.
[11:11] Nar
The player before him looks troubled, as well.
[11:14] Nar
And once you've gained
control, lies becomes truths.
[11:18] Nar
Akagi arrives at his own truth by
deliberately weakening himself.
[11:24] Nar
Ichikawa is in tenpai.
[11:25] Boss
This is perfect.
[11:27] Boss
If he discards the 5 of characters,
[11:28] Boss
he's looking at a haneman tsumo.
[11:30] Boss
He can end the match—
[11:32] Boss
What?!
[11:35] Man
R-Ron!
[11:36] Boss
What?! Why?!
[11:39] Boss
It can't be!
[11:40] Boss
I see.
[11:42] Boss
A judgment typical of a man
as pragmatic as Ichikawa.
[11:45] Boss
Right now, the only thing Ichikawa
wants to prevent is Akagi winning.
[11:49] Boss
He probably knew the kokushi musou
had a 90% chance of being a bluff,
[11:54] Boss
but he figured,
[11:55] Boss
on the off-chance that Akagi
escapes out of reach again,
[11:57] Boss
he'd be better off throwing away this hand.
[12:05] Boss
For Ichikawa, dealing into that
hand was the logical conclusion.
[12:08] Boss
But this sort of underhanded play
might change the flow of the game.
[12:14] Boss
Thinking about it,
this was a godly play by Akagi.
[12:18] Boss
He used his terrible
starting hand and his draws
[12:21] Boss
to force Ichikawa out of the dealer seat.
[12:24] Boss
With this trash hand...
[12:28] Nar
To rewrite lies into truths,
he bled himself without hesitation.
[12:33] Nar
Each of Akagi's tiles seems to
glisten with his own blood,
[12:36] Nar
placing unsurmountable
pressure on Ichikawa.
[12:39] Boss
This is Akagi's Mahjong...
[12:45] Nar
Akagi's just come back
from the depths of Hell,
[12:48] Nar
and his starting hand looks like
he's just made a pact with the devil.
[12:54] Nar
It's an extraordinary starting hand.
[12:56] Nar
Could this be the luck
Akagi was born with?
[12:58] Nan
Whenever he survives
a near-death encounter,
[13:00] Nan
Akagi returns with a monster hand.
[13:03] Nar
Then, five turns later...
[13:05] Aka
Tsumo.
[13:06] Nar
He wins this unbelievable
hand with a tsumo.
[13:08] Nar
Honitsu, tsumo, chanta, san ankou,
red dragons, green dragons, 1 dora.
[13:13] Nar
A sanbaiman.
SIGN Sanbaiman - Triple mangan.
[13:16] Nar
The sand at the depths
of Hell is magical sand.
[13:20] Nar
Touching it will reverse the poles
of great fortune and great loss,
[13:24] Nar
much like a coin turning
from one side to another.
[13:27] Nar
Now Akagi is the dealer.
[13:29] Nar
He takes another 5,800
from the player after him.
[13:33] Nar
Then he gets another dealer
mangan with a tsumo win.
[13:37] Nar
He gives himself up to his flow
and goes on a winning streak.
[13:39] Nar
He now has 47,000 points.
[13:43] Nar
He's made it back to just under 50,000.
[13:48] Nar
But the problem is still ahead.
[13:51] Nar
Ichikawa is a wall he cannot penetrate.
[13:55] Nar
He was unable to get a direct win
off the real target, Ichikawa.
[13:58] Nar
In this game,
[13:59] Nar
he must decrease Ichikawa's points
if he wants to approach victory.
[14:04] Nar
Akagi attempts unorthodox waits,
hell waits, and all other manners of waits,
[14:08] Nar
but Ichikawa plays too defensively
and never deals into his hand.
[14:12] Aka
Riichi.
[14:13] Nar
Akagi doggedly tries to
win off of Ichikawa.
[14:16] Nar
He goes into a hell wait for
the last of the four wind tiles.
[14:20] Nar
The game, however, ends up
being another fruitless draw.
[14:23] Nar
Ichikawa will not deal into his hand.
[14:28] Aka
Oh, boy.
[14:30] Aka
Let's stop this.
[14:33] Aka
It's never going to end, Ichikawa-san.
[14:37] Aka
What good does it do for us to
keep piling up these points?
[14:41] Aka
What we really want
[14:43] Aka
are the points that we have to
pay with our flesh and bone.
[14:47] Ichi
What are you trying to say?
[14:50] Aka
Let's cut it down to one tenth.
[14:52] Aka
Right now, I have 50,000 and
you have 100,000 points.
[14:55] Aka
Let's cut these down to 5,000
and 10,000 and start over.
[15:00] Nan
What?!
[15:02] Nan
You just managed to get yourself up
to 50,000 points and into the clear!
[15:06] Nan
Why would you do something that risky?
[15:08] Cop
No, this could actually be interesting.
[15:10] Cop
Ichikawa has 100,000 points.
[15:12] Cop
It would be basically
impossible to make him bust.
[15:17] Cop
Looking at it that way,
it's not a bad idea to gamble.
[15:19] Cop
The bigger problem is getting
Ichikawa to accept this term.
[15:25] Ichi
I refuse.
[15:27] Ichi
I would refuse even if you
had as many points as I do.
[15:33] Ichi
I won't do anything that would lower my
chances of winning by even a single percent.
[15:39] Aka
Fine, then. You stubborn old fart.
[15:43] Aka
Looks like I'll have to force the issue.
[15:47] Cop
I can tell this kid's up to no good again.
[15:52] Cop
What's he going to do now?
[15:57] Nar
Akagi is still on his dealer streak.
[15:59] Nar
As always, the game flows in his favor.
[16:02] Nar
On the ninth turn, he's in tenpai.
[16:07] Cop
He's got two choices.
[16:08] Cop
He could go for the south wind
hell wait, or 6 or 9 of characters.
[16:13] Cop
But he's already confirmed that
single hell waits aren't effective.
[16:17] Cop
And his discards are a dead
giveaway that he's after a honitsu.
[16:21] Cop
A south wind wait would be meaningless.
[16:25] Cop
It's nothing special, but right
now, he's got no other option.
[16:29] Man
Riichi!
[16:34] Nar
Then, on Akagi's turn...
[16:36] Nar
He doesn't chase it.
[16:37] Nar
He simply discards the tile he drew.
[16:39] Nar
In the 12th turn, the player before him
[16:42] Nar
discards a 6 of characters.
[16:44] Nar
This is Akagi's winning tile.
[16:46] Nar
However, Akagi does not win.
[16:48] Aka
Chi.
[16:49] Nar
He makes his move.
[16:51] Nar
He calls the 6 of characters
and discards the 9,
[16:54] Nar
switching his winning tile,
but giving up a ron win.
[16:56] Nar
Initially, this call seems meaningless,
[16:58] Nar
but it marks the beginning of
Akagi's hunt for Ichikawa...
[17:01] Boss
Hold it.
[17:02] Boss
You can't do that.
[17:03] Aka
Huh?
[17:04] Boss
You can't call a 6 of
characters and discard a 9.
[17:06] Boss
We don't accept switch-ups like those.
[17:08] Boss
Put it back.
[17:11] Nar
Akagi is uncharacteristically accommodating.
[17:14] Nar
He puts the discarded 9
[17:15] Nar
and the revealed 7 and 8
back into his hand,
[17:18] Nar
and returns the 6 he had
called to the discard pile.
[17:21] Nar
He then draws a new tile...
[17:22] Nar
and discards that tile immediately.
[17:27] Cop
I get it.
[17:29] Cop
Now I see what he's getting at.
[17:31] Cop
He only pretended to not
know about that rule,
[17:33] Cop
and that in itself is the trap.
[17:35] Cop
Since he can still call on tiles,
it means he's not in tenpai.
[17:38] Cop
The 6 he called and the 9 he
discarded, at least, will seem safe.
[17:44] Cop
He wanted to emphasize
that these tiles are safe
[17:47] Cop
and something this elaborate would
be enough to fool most people.
[17:52] Cop
Probably even Ichikawa is no exception.
[17:56] Nar
No.
[17:59] Nar
Ichikawa saw through it.
[18:02] Ichi
You're a sly little monkey who
likes to use dirty tricks.
[18:07] Ichi
But that trick's been
around for a long time.
[18:11] Ichi
I can't discard this 9 of characters.
[18:13] Ichi
It's the most dangerous tile.
[18:16] Ichi
Which means that...
[18:17] Ichi
The safest tile is...
[18:23] Ichi
The west wind.
[18:25] Ichi
The fourth west wind.
[18:27] Ichi
This is 100% safe.
[18:29] Ichi
I have to stay on the defensive.
[18:36] Aka
That's it, old man.
[18:41] Ichi
I-Impossible...
[18:43] Ichi
This was supposed to
be the fourth west wind.
[18:45] Ichi
That can't happen!
[18:48] Ichi
Is it really a west wind?!
[18:50] Boss
Y-Yes!
[18:57] Cop
H-How did he...
[18:59] Cop
I'm sitting right behind him
and I still don't understand.
[19:02] Cop
Until a second ago, he was
waiting on a 6 and 9 of characters.
[19:07] Cop
That's it!
[19:08] Cop
He switched the west wind
with the 9 of characters!
[19:11] Cop
He filched it after that call.
[19:13] Cop
When he was returning the tiles.
[19:19] Cop
He's insane!
[19:21] Cop
Is this what he meant
by forcing the issue?!
[19:25] Cop
I can't believe this guy...
[19:28] Ichi
It's not possible.
[19:30] Ichi
I dealt the fourth west wind.
[19:33] Ichi
Unless he had a kokushi musou,
that tile was 100% safe.
[19:36] Ichi
Which means he pulled that tile
from somewhere in the discard pile.
[19:42] Ichi
He got me.
[19:44] Ichi
We have no way to stop
him from doing this.
[19:48] Ichi
The longer the match goes on,
the worse my position gets.
[19:51] Ichi
So that's his game.
[19:53] Aka
What do you say, Ichikawa-san?
[19:55] Aka
Will you accept my proposal?
[20:00] Ichi
Fine.
[20:01] Ichi
I accept.
[20:03] Boss
Ichikawa...
[20:05] Ichi
I'll make you regret cheating
against me... Akagi.
[20:12] Aka
That's the spirit. I knew you'd
understand, Ichikawa-san.
[20:18] Cop
He got his way in the end.
[20:22] Cop
He really is ruthless.
[20:24] Cop
At this point, I can't even be appalled.
[20:26] Cop
I can only admire his natural talent
[20:28] Cop
that allowed him to execute
this so masterfully.
[20:32] Nar
The points are cut to one tenth.
[20:34] Nar
Akagi goes from 68,000 to 6,800.
[20:38] Nar
Ichikawa goes from 81,700 to 8,100.
[20:42] Nar
They are now both under 10,000 points.
[20:45] Nar
The game can now be settled in one blow.
[20:50] Nar
It was Akagi's talent that
created these conditions.
[20:54] Nar
That's right.
[20:55] Nar
Akagi's true nature,
which is undoubtedly evil.
[21:02] Nar
Evil of the highest and purest grade.
[21:07] Nar
A picaro.
SIGN Next Episode
SIGN An Innocent Devil
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[01:12] Nar
It goes back and forth.
[01:14] Nar
The outcome of Akagi and Ichikawa's
death match is completely unpredictable.
[01:17] Nar
But it seems as if the battle
has entered the final throes.
[01:23] Nar
Ichikawa accepted Akagi's proposal,
[01:25] Nar
and the match resumes with each
player's points cut down to one tenth.
[01:29] Nar
Akagi has 6,800 and
Ichikawa has 8,100 points.
SIGN Episode 7
SIGN An Innocent Devil
[01:44] Nan
What's going to happen?
[01:46] Cop
There's no use discussing it now.
[01:47] Cop
They've both been reduced
to under 10,000 points.
[01:50] Cop
We might have a winner after this hand.
[01:53] Nan
That's...
[01:55] Cop
But the flow is on Akagi's side.
[01:58] Cop
He could just win this
whole thing, here and now.
[02:02] Aka
Riichi.
[02:05] Cop
Yes, the flow favors Akagi.
[02:07] Cop
With a high end win,
he could get a haneman.
[02:09] Cop
Good fortune.
[02:10] Cop
If he wins here, he wins it all.
[02:12] Man
Ron!
[02:14] Nar
But, of course, it was Ichikawa
who put a stop to that.
[02:18] Nar
He dealt into the hand
of the player after him.
[02:20] Nar
Adding 900 since it's the third
bonus hand, he pays out 3,500.
[02:25] Nar
He now has 4,600 left.
[02:27] Nar
Ichikawa knows that sacrifices are
necessary in order to stop Akagi.
[02:31] Nar
But Akagi also lost his 1,000 riichi wager,
[02:35] Nar
and in the next hand, he's forced to deal into
someone's hand to foil Ichikawa's tenpai.
[02:39] Nar
The 1 han hand costs him 1,300.
[02:42] Nar
He now has 4,500 points left.
[02:44] Nar
They are both under 5,000.
[02:46] Nar
Should either of them score a 5,200 hand,
[02:49] Nar
the battle will be on a fast track
to ending once and for all.
[02:52] Nar
Ichikawa draws on his years of experience.
[02:55] Nar
Akagi draws on his innate instinct.
[02:57] Nar
They read each other's hands
and do not budge an inch.
[03:02] Aka
The green dragon's a live tile.
[03:04] Aka
Doesn't matter.
[03:07] Aka
Green dragon.
[03:09] Ichi
Kan.
[03:12] Ichi
Akagi.
[03:13] Ichi
I don't want any arguing after I win,
[03:16] Ichi
so let me just make it clear right now.
[03:18] Ichi
If I win right now from the
tile I draw from the dead wall,
[03:22] Ichi
you alone must pay the full
amount for dealing that live tile.
[03:25] Ichi
I'm assuming you know that.
[03:28] Aka
Really?
[03:30] Cop
Yeah, there's a rule for an open kan
[03:31] Cop
where the person who dealt
the tile has to pay for the win.
[03:33] Cop
But that almost never...
[03:36] Ichi
Yes.
[03:37] Ichi
It almost never happens.
[03:39] Ichi
There is, though,
the possibility, however slight.
[03:44] Ichi
I just wanted to make sure you knew.
[03:53] Ichi
Whoops.
[03:55] Ichi
Looks like I drew it.
[03:58] Ichi
White dragon, rinshan kaihou.
SIGN Rinshan kaihou - Winning off the extra tile drawn when you declare a kan.
[04:01] Cop
Impossible!
[04:03] Ichi
Can you flip the new dora indicator, Akagi?
[04:06] Ichi
If I have even one dora,
it will go up to 6,400.
[04:09] Ichi
Since you only have 4,500, you'll be dead.
[04:24] Nar
The new dora is the 1 of circles.
[04:26] Nar
Ichikawa has none of the new dora.
[04:30] Nan
We survived.
[04:32] Cop
He managed to escape death,
but now Akagi's only got 1,300.
[04:37] Cop
The no-tenpai penalty could kill him.
SIGN If there are no more tiles to draw and your hand is not in tenpai, you must pay 1,000 to each player in tenpai.
[04:39] Cop
He really has nowhere left to run.
[04:41] Man
Ichikawa, the new dora is the 1 of circles.
[04:44] Ichi
Figures, from the demon spawn.
[04:46] Ichi
He's got demonic luck.
[04:49] Ichi
However, that ends now.
[04:51] Ichi
Be it in this hand or the next, you will die.
[04:54] Ichi
Your antics are well and good, but you've
picked the wrong man to play them with.
[05:01] Cop
What the hell is this?
[05:04] Boss
Akagi's figured it out.
[05:06] Nar
For a player of Ichikawa's caliber,
[05:08] Nar
memorizing the tiles in his
own wall is not a big feat.
[05:11] Nar
The 17 tiles in his wall,
and the actual tile he drew.
[05:15] Nar
And that sleight of hand...
[05:19] Nar
This lets him pick any of the 18 tiles he likes.
[05:26] Nar
Virtually invincible.
[05:30] Aka
Mind if I get some fresh air?
[05:33] Ichi
Not at all.
[05:37] Cop
He cheated?
[05:38] Cop
You may have done it
to shorten the game,
[05:41] Cop
but still, you started it.
[05:43] Cop
That was your fatal mistake.
[05:45] Cop
Ichikawa hadn't cheated because
[05:47] Cop
he considered himself to be
in a higher class than you.
[05:49] Cop
But what you did gave
him an excuse to cheat.
[05:52] Nan
Can you beat him if he does stuff like that?!
[05:55] Aka
Depends on the dice.
[05:58] Aka
If the wall stays intact in front of
Ichikawa when the next hand starts,
[06:04] Aka
he won't show mercy.
[06:06] Aka
He'll win on the fourth
rotation with a tsumo.
[06:08] Nan
The fourth rotation?!
[06:10] Aka
If that happens,
the heavens have abandoned us.
[06:14] Aka
Let's just be prepared.
[06:18] Aka
But if the opposite of that happens,
[06:21] Aka
and he's not able to pull any tricks,
[06:24] Aka
I'll think of it as me
having the advantage.
[06:27] Aka
If that happens,
the heavens have chosen me.
[06:31] Aka
Telling me to win.
[06:41] Nar
The final moment draws closer.
[06:43] Nar
In order to survive, Akagi first
entrusts his life to the dice.
[06:48] Nar
If that dice roll is in Ichikawa's favor,
[06:51] Nar
Akagi's loss will have
already been decided.
[06:54] Nar
Which means the death of
Yasuoka and Nangou, as well.
[06:58] Nar
The rules call for two rolls of the dice.
[07:00] Nar
As the dealer, Ichikawa rolls
the dice first and gets a 3, 4.
[07:03] Nar
The roll indicates the
player opposite to him.
[07:05] Nar
The dice of fate are entrusted to Akagi.
[07:19] Cop
Three!
[07:20] Cop
Thank God.
[07:24] Cop
Akagi's still got some luck.
[07:28] Cop
And right when I think that, this?!
[07:30] Cop
What a lousy starting hand.
[07:33] Cop
He'll just have to do the best he can.
[07:37] Cop
There's no guarantee that the wall
won't be in front of Ichikawa next time.
[07:42] Cop
How can he possibly turn this into a
mangan hand to defeat Ichikawa?
[07:48] Cop
How should he play to confuse
Ichikawa into playing into his hand?
[07:53] Nar
Akagi's hand is no easy trial.
[07:55] Nar
And Ichikawa...
[07:58] Ichi
Akagi's only got 1,300 left.
[08:01] Ichi
I didn't need these dora right now.
[08:03] Ichi
A lighter, faster hand
would have been good.
[08:06] Ichi
There's no need to push myself here.
[08:08] Ichi
I can end this in one second if my
wall is in front of me in the next hand.
[08:16] Ichi
What's important now
is to not play into his hand.
[08:20] Man
2 of circles.
[08:22] Aka
Chi.
[08:24] Aka
6 of characters.
[08:25] Ichi
A circles straight hand, huh?
[08:30] Man
3 of characters!
[08:31] Aka
Chi.
[08:33] Aka
1 of circles.
[08:34] Ichi
A called sanshoku?
[08:36] Ichi
Not a hand that leads to a mangan.
[08:39] Ichi
He just wants to win this hand,
no matter how cheap the hand.
[08:48] Ichi
Three dora?
[08:50] Ichi
Which means the most he can have
is a sanshoku with one dora.
[08:55] Ichi
Is he mocking me?!
[09:04] Ichi
If that's the case,
I've got nothing to fear.
[09:07] Ichi
Pon.
[09:09] Ichi
I won't hold back.
[09:10] Ichi
I will attack!
[09:12] Nar
Ichikawa is in tenpai.
[09:13] Nar
He has an ideal 2, 5, 8 of circles wait.
[09:18] Ichi
It's finally time to sign his death warrant.
[09:22] Ichi
He doesn't even have to deal into my hand.
[09:24] Ichi
He's only got 1,300 left.
If I get so much as a tsumo, he's dead.
[09:33] Boss
Why's he wavering now?
[09:36] Boss
Even if he plays into it,
it's only a sanshoku with one dora.
[09:39] Boss
Only 2,000 points.
[09:43] Boss2
I see.
[09:45] Boss2
Normally, this north wind
wouldn't be a threat.
[09:48] Boss2
However, if three coincidences
were to come together,
[09:50] Boss2
it could possibly be a mangan hand.
[09:53] Boss2
If he discards the north wind and
Akagi wins, there is nothing to fear.
[09:57] Boss2
The problem is that it would
give Akagi an open kan.
[10:00] Boss2
The same trick Ichikawa used last hand
to make Akagi pay for the win.
[10:05] Boss2
He'd have a rinshan kaihou,
tsumo, and a sanshoku
[10:07] Boss2
worth two han, and any
new dora on top of that.
[10:09] Boss2
Should that transform any pair in his hand,
[10:11] Boss2
or the north wind, into dora, his
hand would be more than a mangan.
[10:14] Boss2
And this time, it would be
Ichikawa's responsibility to pay.
[10:18] Nar
Of course, the chance of this
happening is extremely low.
[10:21] Nar
First, Akagi would have to
declare a kan on the north wind.
[10:23] Nar
He would have to win with
a tsumo from the dead wall,
[10:25] Nar
as well as get new doras
from the revealed tile.
[10:27] Nar
It would be a miracle that would require
[10:28] Nar
passing through three separate barriers.
[10:31] Nar
Normally, discarding the north wind
at this point would be no problem.
[10:34] Nar
But Ichikawa is afraid.
[10:37] Nar
That's right.
[10:38] Nar
The opponent Ichikawa faces is Akagi.
[10:42] Nar
He makes the improbable and
the impossible possible.
[10:47] Nar
He is a man who can make
you feel that fear.
[10:50] Nar
That's Akagi.
[10:56] Nar
From one moment to the next,
Ichikawa is backed against the wall.
[10:59] Nar
What drives him into the corner
is the live north wind tile.
[11:04] Nar
Should he keep it and discard
a red dragon instead?
[11:07] Nar
But that kind of playing
style is too timid for him.
[11:10] Nar
Even if they move into the next hand,
there is no telling which of them will win.
[11:13] Ichi
Anyone with common sense wouldn't
even consider the possibility...
[11:17] Ichi
But this kid here can't be
measured with common sense.
[11:23] Ichi
The next tile in my wall
is the 3 of bamboo.
[11:27] Ichi
There is a possibility that
it could be his winning tile.
[11:43] Aka
Kan!
[11:46] Boss
There it is!
[11:46] Boss
I can't believe this kid!
[11:48] Boss
Does he really intend to break through
those barriers and achieve the miracle?
[11:51] Nar
Right then, Ichikawa...
[11:57] Nar
This is Ichikawa's plan.
[11:59] Nar
When he discarded the north wind,
[12:01] Nar
he already had the red
dragon hidden in his hand.
[12:04] Nar
If Akagi declared a kan,
[12:06] Nar
he would replace the tile in the
dead wall with this red dragon
[12:08] Nar
and kill his chance at
a rinshan kaihou win.
[12:11] Nar
Ichikawa's decision to discard the
north wind was not just a bold play.
[12:14] Nar
It came with full insurance,
covering all possibilities.
[12:21] Ichi
What's this hand?
[12:23] Ichi
That little...
[12:25] Ichi
He saw through my plan to
switch the tile he'd draw...
[12:28] Ichi
Well, then...
[12:34] Aka
I've called three times now.
[12:36] Aka
And now for my dead wall draw.
[12:41] Ichi
That tile is the 3 of bamboo.
[12:43] Ichi
If he is ready, he could win with a sanshoku.
[12:48] Ichi
But the odds of that happening
are less than one in three.
[12:51] Ichi
Like he will.
[13:01] Boss
What?!
[13:02] Nar
In this moment, at the bottom
of his heart, Ichikawa trembled
[13:05] Nar
in fear of Akagi's luck.
[13:08] Nar
His actions before had
already been a last resort.
[13:11] Nar
If he couldn't switch Akagi's drawn tile,
[13:13] Nar
he'd switch the new dora indicator tile.
[13:16] Nar
Akagi can't get a mangan so long
as he has less than two dora.
[13:20] Nar
There is a white dragon in Akagi's discards.
[13:22] Nar
Which means that if he switches
the tile with a red dragon,
[13:25] Nar
there's no way that Akagi
will have any new dora.
[13:27] Nar
It is a perfect mangan blocker.
[13:30] Nar
However, the actual dora indicator tile
[13:32] Nar
he switched out right then was the...
[13:37] Nar
West wind!
[13:39] Nar
Meaning, the four north winds
would've given Akagi four dora.
[13:43] Ichi
I'd be dead if I hadn't made that switch.
[13:46] Ichi
This is scary.
[13:47] Ichi
This kid is unbelievable.
[13:50] Ichi
His luck exceeds all expectations.
[13:53] Ichi
He really is possessed by the gods.
[13:55] Ichi
Still, however narrow the
margin, I am still the victor.
[14:01] Ichi
When I switched the red dragon,
I switched his luck, too, and evaded him.
[14:04] Ichi
He won't get any new dora,
and with an open rinshan kaihou
[14:08] Ichi
and called sanshoku,
his hand stops at 2,600 points.
[14:11] Ichi
I used up one of my nine lives with this...
[14:15] Aka
The new dora.
[14:16] Man
R-Right.
[14:20] Man
A red dragon...
[14:21] Man
So the new dora is the white dragon.
[14:23] Aka
What?
[14:24] Aka
That's funny.
[14:25] Man
Huh?
[14:27] Aka
The way the game's been going,
[14:28] Aka
I could've sworn it was
going to be a north wind.
[14:33] Boss
Wh-What are you talking about?
[14:35] Boss
That kind of shameless
guesswork won't help you!
[14:39] Aka
But it's all the same.
[14:45] Boss
Huh?
[14:48] Boss
It can't be...
[14:56] Boss
Wh-White dragons?!
[14:58] Boss
He has two dora as his pair?!
[15:01] Cop
Rinshan tsumo!
Sanshoku, with two dora.
[15:03] Cop
That's a mangan!
[15:03] Cop
It's over!
[15:05] Nan
We won! We really won!
[15:09] Ichi
White dragons?
[15:11] Ichi
That can't be!
[15:16] Ichi
Something that ridiculous just isn't possible!
[15:20] Ichi
Why do you have white
dragons as your pair?
[15:22] Ichi
Do you mean to tell me
[15:24] Ichi
you threw away a white dragon
from a concealed triplet?
[15:28] Ichi
It's a game where every han counts,
[15:30] Ichi
and you threw a dragon away
after you had gotten three?!
[15:33] Ichi
How could you do something that irrational?
[15:39] Aka
Rationality is a rule in your world.
[15:42] Aka
Sorry, but that's not a
restriction that applies to me.
[15:47] Aka
Throwing yourself into absurdity
is what gambling is all about.
[15:51] Ichi
You bastard!
[15:52] Ichi
You laid that white dragon down as bait!
[15:57] Ichi
You laid it down to force
me to switch those tiles!
[16:00] Ichi
You did it on purpose!
[16:05] Nar
Akagi baited a trap.
[16:09] Nar
He did this to make Ichikawa
believe he had no white dragons.
[16:13] Nar
He discarded a white dragon
from a concealed triplet,
[16:16] Nar
a move that is normally inconceivable.
[16:19] Nar
It was a decoy he employed based on his
predictions of Ichikawa's future moves.
[16:24] Nar
On the one hand,
Ichikawa had a hidden strategy
[16:27] Nar
to prevent Akagi from
getting his mangan hand
[16:31] Nar
with multiple levels of insurance.
[16:33] Nar
Ichikawa was certain that
he had evaded danger.
[16:37] Nar
However, a moment later,
he'd be taught otherwise.
[16:42] Nar
He had been dancing on Akagi's
palm this entire time.
[16:47] Boss
Akagi's win can't be written
off as pure luck, after all.
[16:53] Boss
His technique is superior.
[16:54] Boss
His potential is superior.
[16:56] Boss
He has natural genius.
[16:57] Boss
A talent no one can even
hope to come close to.
[17:01] Boss
And it was too much for Ichikawa.
[17:07] Boss
Here's the eighty million, Akagi.
[17:10] Boss
Please take it.
[17:15] aka
I don't want it.
[17:16] aka
Double or nothing.
[17:20] Cop
Akagi!
[17:21] Cop
Don't you know you when to quit?!
[17:23] Aka
I never did.
[17:25] Aka
This game always was about playing
until one of us is destroyed.
[17:30] Aka
It was that kind of gamble.
[17:32] Aka
Right, Kurosaki-san?
[17:37] Boss
Akagi...
[17:39] Boss
I want to agree with you, but that's
not how this is going to go.
[17:43] Boss
I didn't think Ichikawa would lose...
[17:47] Boss
and we don't have another player.
[17:49] Aka
What are you talking about?
[17:51] Aka
Why don't we just have a
rematch with Ichikawa-san?
[17:55] Aka
We were evenly matched.
[17:59] Boss
He's done for.
[18:01] Boss
This game's made made it apparent
that you belong in different leagues.
[18:04] Boss
He'll never be able to
beat you in this lifetime.
[18:10] Boss
That is to say, now that
you've defeated Ichikawa,
[18:14] Boss
we don't have any more
chance of winning.
[18:17] Boss
I'm sorry to say it, but we're out.
[18:20] Boss
That's our final decision.
[18:23] Cop
This is good enough, right, Akagi?
[18:25] Cop
Let's call it a day here.
[18:26] Cop
I can set up other matches like this
for you whenever you want.
[18:31] Cop
Okay?
[18:46] cop
Here you go, Nangou-san. Your cut.
[18:51] cop
Akagi,
[18:54] cop
this is your cut.
[18:55] cop
It's way too much for
a middle school student.
[19:04] nan
The expression on Akagi's face
then left an impression on me.
[19:07] nan
I still remember it to this day.
[19:10] nan
He had the eyes of a child who
had lost interest in a toy.
[19:14] nan
The insanity housed in them had vanished.
[19:17] nan
His eyes were pure.
[19:19] nan
Yes, at a glance,
[19:21] nan
he was just another 13 year old
middle school student.
[19:26] nan
It was like the demon had left him.
[19:28] nan
That's when I suddenly realized the
secret behind Akagi's strength.
[19:35] nan
I realized what it is that he has, and I lack.
[19:39] nan
I decided that I wouldn't
gamble ever again.
[19:44] nan
I could never be successful at gambling.
[19:48] nan
Because I'll never be able to have
that sort of look in my eyes.
[19:55] nar
The night of legend was over.
SIGN 1963 (5 years later)
[20:06] gue
Thanks.
[20:07] che
Thank you!
[20:16] nan
It's been five years since then.
[20:19] nan
Yasuoka-san is still somewhat
involved in gambling.
[20:23] nan
I got out of it.
[20:26] nan
I occasionally play Mahjong
for fun, but not for money.
[20:31] nan
I haven't heard anything about Akagi.
[20:34] nan
He just disappeared.
[20:37] nan
Has he amassed an immense
fortune by now?
[20:42] nan
Or did he get burned by
the flame of gambling?
[20:49] nan
Akagi...
[20:52] nar
And thus Akagi became a legend.
[20:56] nar
But Akagi hadn't disappeared.
[21:00] nar
The world would know about Akagi again.
[21:04] nar
In just one short year.
SIGN Next time: "The Sign of Rebirth."
SIGN Next Episode
SIGN The Sign of Rebirth
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[01:11] nar
1958.
[01:13] nar
Akagi Shigeru, the genius who
suddenly descended into the darkness.
[01:16] nar
He was just 13 when he emerged victorious
[01:18] nar
from the death match against the
Kawada group's rep player, Ichikawa.
[01:21] nar
After that, he vanished without a trace.
[01:24] nar
Six years have passed since then.
[01:31] nar
1964.
[01:33] nar
All of Japan was excited
about the Tokyo Olympics.
[01:46] kaw
Are you certain, Yasuoka-san?
[01:49] yas
Lying wouldn't get me anywhere.
[01:53] yas
People who know him would
know it when they see him.
[01:56] kaw
Then it's really
SIGN Kawada Group Boss
Kawada
[01:57] kaw
the one from that legendary night?
[02:00] yas
Yes, these last six years,
nobody knew where he was.
[02:09] yas
It is the Akagi Shigeru.
[02:13] yas
You will be able to witness another
legendary tale of the undefeatable man...
[02:18] yas
Delivered by Akagi Shigeru.
[02:20] kaw
Ishikawa.
SIGN Kawada Group Underboss
Ishikawa
[02:21] ish
Yes.
[02:23] kaw
You're the only one in our group
who has seen Akagi play in person.
[02:28] kaw
I'll leave this to you.
[02:30] ish
Yes.
[02:33] guy
I've brought him.
[02:34] kaw
Come in.
[02:42] yas
This is Akagi Shigeru.
SIGN Episode 8
SIGN The Sign of Rebirth
[02:52] ish
Let's see how you play.
[02:55] ish
We've supplied additional players.
[02:57] ish
That's all right, isn't it, Yasuoka-san?
[03:00] yas
That's fine.
[03:07] ish
That godly play I saw six years ago
isn't something that anyone can do.
[03:13] ish
If that sort of play is recreated right here,
[03:16] ish
I'll have no choice but to believe
[03:19] ish
that the Akagi Shigeru here is the real deal.
[03:28] ish
The perfect tile to draw.
[03:30] ish
He can now go from a double
pon wait to a two-sided wait.
[03:35] ish
Huh?!
[03:38] ish
He kept the double pon wait?
[03:40] ish
Why did he stick with that if
it won't give him a pinfu?
[03:50] fak
Tsumo!
[03:57] ish
What's with his luck?
SIGN Daisangen
[04:04] nar
It was a ridiculous draw.
[04:07] nar
But after this, Akagi kept making
impossible draws and wins.
[04:18] nar
And in the last hand...
[04:23] ish
He's got a junchan hand.
[04:26] ish
He has to discard the 6 of circles.
[04:29] aka
Riichi.
[04:32] ish
Again!
[04:33] ish
He did something inexplicable again.
[04:42] aka
Ippatsu tsumo.
[04:43] aka
Riichi, pinfu, sanshoku.
[04:45] aka
Haneman.
[04:53] yas
Looks like Akagi dominated
these two East-South matches.
[04:57] ish
I don't get how he can continue
to get all these crazy draws.
[05:02] yas
It's simple.
[05:07] ish
Simple?
[05:08] yas
Akagi, do it.
[05:24] nar
Akagi gathers 17 tiles, looks at them
for an instant, and puts them down.
[05:29] nar
He repeats this 8 times.
[05:38] nar
In other words, 17 x 8 tiles,
136 tiles, are now facedown.
[05:46] yas
Ishikawa-san, it doesn't matter
which, just name any hand.
[05:50] yas
Akagi will put together that hand
while the tiles are facedown.
[05:53] ish
He'll pick the tiles facedown?
[05:55] yas
Yes, he's memorized all of the 136 tiles here.
[06:01] ish
That's ridiculous! Memorized?
[06:03] ish
He didn't have time for that.
He only glanced at them.
[06:07] yas
That's all he needs.
Please, name a hand.
[06:11] ish
Then, a sanshoku.
[06:34] ish
Okay, next, a kokushi musou.
[06:47] ish
Daisangen tsuuiisou!
SIGN Tsuuiisou - A hand composed exclusively of wind and dragon tiles.
[06:50] ish
After a kokushi musou,
this should be difficult.
[06:52] ish
He won't be able to make it unless he
knows the position of every honor tile.
[07:10] ish
That is indeed amazing.
[07:12] ish
His memorization skill could be called godly.
[07:16] ish
But something's off.
[07:18] ish
I can't shake that feeling.
[07:21] ish
What was amazing about Akagi
Shigeru was not something like that.
[07:28] ish
What I saw six years ago was something
totally different, something mysterious.
[07:35] ish
It was something far beyond
the scope of normal people like us.
[07:49] kaw
So?
[07:50] ish
Akagi has become weaker.
[07:52] ish
It seems that his peak was six years ago,
[07:54] ish
and in a sense, he's not the same person.
[07:57] ish
Nevertheless, he has abilities that
far surpass those of normal people.
[08:04] kaw
Then I don't care.
[08:06] kaw
No matter how much he has weakened,
[08:08] kaw
it's irrelevant as long as there
is nobody who can beat him.
[08:17] ish
I hate this.
[08:19] ish
I didn't want to see a second-rate Akagi.
[08:21] guy
You bastard!
[08:24] guy
Think we're playing around?!
[08:25] guy
Don't screw with us!
[08:27] ---
Come on, bitch!
[08:28] guy
Are you shitting yourself?
[08:29] ---
The fuck are you looking at?
[08:31] ish
Four on one, huh?
[08:34] guy
Asshole!
[08:51] guy
H-Hey!
[08:56] guy
Damn you!
[08:57] guy
I won't forget this!
[09:03] isH
Akagi Shigeru?
[09:06] isH
No, he has a completely different
aura than the guy from before.
[09:10] isH
It's like he's a different person.
[09:12] isH
Are there two Akagi Shigerus?
[09:24] isH
Are you Akagi?
[09:26] isH
Are you Akagi Shigeru?
[09:29] isH
Are you the Akagi Shigeru who had a
death match against the blind master,
[09:33] isH
Ichikawa, six years ago?
[09:35] isH
I don't expect you to remember who I am.
[09:39] isH
After that match, you suddenly disappeared.
[09:43] isH
We looked all over for you.
[09:48] isH
H-Hey.
[09:50] isH
Please wait!
[10:00] nan
Akagi?
[10:02] ish
Yes.
[10:03] nan
It's been six years, so I realize
he might be difficult to recognize.
[10:10] nan
But Akagi is different.
[10:13] nan
He was so unique and intense.
[10:15] nan
So if Yasuoka-san is saying
that that man is Akagi...
[10:20] ish
No, that man is someone else.
[10:22] nan
Huh?
[10:23] ish
It was just one night, but I have
seen Akagi with my own eyes.
[10:27] ish
That man is a fake.
[10:29] ish
Yasuoka-san is just using Akagi's name.
[10:33] ish
I'm sure about that.
[10:36] ish
I came here today to ask for
your help with the other Akagi.
[10:42] nan
The other Akagi?
[10:43] ish
Yes.
[10:48] ish
The man I met after seeing the fake Akagi
[10:51] ish
is the one who matched
the Akagi of my memory.
[10:57] ish
I asked my underlings and,
apparently, he's quite notorious
[11:01] ish
among the local punks
for picking random fights.
[11:04] nan
Random fights?
[11:05] ish
Amateurs, yakuza members...
he'll pick a fight with anyone.
[11:08] ish
It's like he knows no fear.
[11:11] ish
It goes without saying that he's skilled.
[11:13] ish
If you're with less than five people,
[11:15] ish
it's safest to avoid eye contact with him.
[11:18] nan
You're saying that man is Akagi?
[11:23] ish
That's what I'd like you to confirm.
[11:26] ish
We've already figured out where he is.
[11:30] nan
A toy factory?
[11:32] ish
Akagi is a worker at this factory.
[11:37] ish
Could you take a look through that gap?
[11:40] ish
He should be working right now.
[11:55] ish
Well?
[11:56] nan
That looks like him.
[11:57] nan
So much, I could almost swear it's him.
[12:01] ish
Right?
[12:03] nan
But I can't believe that
Akagi is doing honest work...
[12:22] bos
I'll hand out this month's pay now.
[12:24] bos
Ishida-kun.
[12:25] ishi
Yes.
[12:26] bos
Nagasawa-kun.
[12:27] nag
Yes.
[12:28] bos
Kawashima-kun.
[12:29] kaw
Yes.
[12:30] bos
Furuya-kun.
[12:31] fur
Yes.
[12:31] bos
Tawara-kun.
[12:32] taw
Yes.
[12:32] bos
Nakatani-kun.
[12:33] ---
Yes.
[12:33] nar
Twelve thousand yen.
[12:35] nar
In 1964, college graduates made
about 20,000 yen at their first job.
[12:42] kaw
Hey, newcomer.
[12:44] kaw
It's our tradition to play
Mahjong on our pay day here.
[12:48] kaw
You know how to play, right?
[12:50] aka
Sorry, but I don't feel like it today.
[12:54] kaw
Come on, don't be like that.
[12:58] kaw
It's also your welcoming party.
[13:00] kaw
We can't do that without you, can we?
[13:02] kaw
Don't worry, we won't take all of your pay.
[13:06] kaw
We'll leave you enough to eat.
[13:09] kaw
It's completely normal to pay
a tuition in the beginning.
[13:12] kaw
It comes with being a member of society.
[13:17] aka
So you'll basically be taking my money.
[13:19] kaw
Not necessarily.
[13:21] kaw
You could win, too.
[13:24] aka
I suppose.
[13:26] aka
You're right.
[13:27] bos
Akagi-kun, you have a visitor.
[13:33] nan
Akagi.
[13:35] aka
Well, well...
[13:36] nan
There's no doubt,
[13:40] nan
you're the real Akagi.
[13:42] aka
What's up, Nangou-san?
[13:44] nan
Do you have a minute?
[13:46] aka
Sure.
[13:48] aka
Well, Senpai, you heard him.
[13:50] nan
Is that okay?
[13:51] aka
It's not like I had plans.
[13:55] kaw
Osamu!
[13:57] kaw
It'll have to be you again this month.
[14:00] osa
But I did it last month,
and the month before that...
[14:03] kaw
Akagi says he won't do it,
so you don't have a choice!
[14:05] kaw
If you want to blame someone, blame him.
[14:09] osa
Akagi-san, please play instead of me.
[14:14] aka
I'm going out now.
[14:16] aka
If you don't want to play, just don't.
[14:18] osa
It doesn't work that way...
[14:20] kaw
We don't have enough players!
[14:22] osa
See?
[14:24] aka
Why don't you go to a Mahjong parlor?
[14:27] aka
There will be plenty of players there,
[14:30] aka
and you'll be able to
gamble all you want there.
[14:34] aka
It's not like you really have to
squeeze us for our cheap salary.
[14:38] kaw
You're gonna talk back to your senpai?!
[14:41] nan
Violence is not the solution!
[14:46] kaw
I'll remember this.
[14:51] aka
For some reason, there are
always two or three of those
[14:54] aka
ganging up at every workplace.
[14:57] aka
I wonder why.
[14:59] nan
Huh?
[15:00] aka
Why don't they live more rewarding lives?
[15:07] aka
I see what's up.
[15:09] nan
I'm sorry, he said he just wanted to talk.
[15:12] ish
Akagi, why are you
wasting your time here?
[15:17] ish
You can't play around forever.
[15:19] ish
You can't buy a life with the pocket change
you get from working a normal job.
[15:27] ish
Last week, the night I ran into you,
[15:31] ish
Yasuoka brought a fake Akagi over.
[15:35] aka
He's just as crooked as always, that cop.
[15:39] aka
So does this fake look like me?
[15:42] ish
Of course he looks like you,
but he actually plays well, too.
[15:46] ish
He is assuming your identity.
He couldn't do that if he was a loser.
[15:52] ish
There were two matches this week
where he played as our rep player.
[15:57] ish
He made it through both without a hitch.
[15:59] (Flashback) fak
Tsumo.
[16:01] ish
He didn't win an astonishing amount,
[16:03] ish
but his play style was stable
from beginning to end.
[16:08] ish
Our boss seems to like his clever
play style and trusts him quite a lot.
[16:14] ish
But I'm worried.
[16:16] nan
Worried?
[16:20] ish
It's true that he has skill,
but it's still within the human realm.
[16:24] ish
If we tried hard enough,
we could probably match him.
[16:29] ish
As a gambler, he's second-rate.
[16:32] nan
Second-rate...
[16:33] ish
He's the type that will never be
able to play on a godly level.
[16:38] ish
He'll lose eventually.
[16:39] ish
When he encounters the real villains
[16:43] ish
and the demons of this world,
he'll be torn to shreds.
[16:47] aka
Green.
[16:51] ish
The only one who can fight
those villains is you, Akagi.
[16:57] aka
I'm just going to take a look at the fake.
[17:01] aka
I don't want anything else to do with this.
[17:03] ish
Yeah, that's right.
[17:08] kawa
I see, you found the real one.
[17:11] kawa
Good work.
[17:13] kawa
However, I don't need him any longer.
[17:16] ish
What?
[17:17] kaw
Ishikawa, I have a high opinion of that man.
[17:21] kaw
The one you call the fake.
[17:26] kaw
He's a new kind of rep player.
[17:28] kaw
Every single move he makes is ruled by logic.
[17:31] kaw
He never plays by gut instinct.
[17:34] kaw
He has the sensibility and
readiness to prioritize actual facts
[17:38] kaw
as well as keen eyes to spot these.
[17:40] kaw
He doesn't win big, but he
doesn't lose big, either.
[17:43] kaw
His wins have a stability to them.
[17:45] kaw
We don't need godly skill in our rep players.
[17:50] kaw
What's important is the average.
[17:54] kaw
Don't you agree, Ishikawa?
[17:57] ---
Yes...
[17:58] yas
Excuse me.
[18:02] nan
Yasuoka-san!
[18:09] nan
So that's the other Akagi.
[18:15] nan
He does look like him.
[18:24] kaw
Ishikawa, I'll show you something fun.
[18:28] kaw
I wonder if the real one can do it, too.
[18:31] kaw
Yasuoka-kun, please have him do that thing.
[18:34] yas
Yes, sir.
[18:38] nar
After being instructed by Yasuoka,
[18:41] nar
the fake Akagi first turns
all 136 tiles facedown.
[18:45] nar
Then he randomly picks
13 tiles and opens them.
[18:49] faK
Three.
[18:52] nar
Then he picks another
13 tiles and opens them.
[18:58] fak
Two.
[18:59] ish
Boss, what is he doing?
[19:02] kaw
It's the shanten number.
[19:03] ish
Shanten?
[19:04] nar
The shanten number is the number of
tiles a hand needs to get into tenpai.
[19:08] nar
A hand that requires three tiles to be
in tenpai is called a three shanten hand.
[19:12] kaw
He instantly finds the shanten
number and says it out loud.
[19:17] ish
That's crazy.
[19:18] ish
He's doing it in a flash without
even ordering the tiles.
[19:21] ish
The first one was three,
and the second one was two...
[19:25] ish
Hey, order the tiles.
[19:33] ish
The first one was a three
shanten hand, and the next...
[19:37] nan
Two shanten.
[19:39] nan
No mistakes.
[19:41] nan
How can he do it so fast?
[19:43] fak
Five.
[19:45] nar
What the fake Akagi is doing here
isn't amazing in and of itself.
[19:50] nar
With enough time, anybody can do it.
[19:53] nar
Except he does it five to ten times
faster than normal people.
[19:57] nar
It's an awe-inspiring speed.
[19:59] fak
Four.
[20:01] nan
Ishikawa-san said he's second-rate,
[20:03] nan
but this man's a different
kind of genius than Akagi.
[20:07] nar
After this, the fake Akagi
[20:09] nar
kept repeating this superhuman
feat without missing a beat.
[20:12] nar
And just when he was about to
uncover the last set of tiles
[20:16] nar
that he picked from the last 19...
[20:20] aka
Three.
[20:26] nan
Three?
[20:27] nan
He hasn't even opened the hand yet!
[20:33] ish
How many?
[20:34] ish
What's the shanten number?
[20:36] nan
Uh...
[20:37] ishi
Order them, order them!
[20:42] nan
No sets of three...
[20:44] ish
And four sets of two, with one pair.
[20:47] ish
Which means...
[20:50] ish
Three shanten!
[20:53] nan
He got it right!
[20:58] nar
The genius Akagi Shigeru has
descended into the darkness again.
[21:02] nar
This is the beginning of a new legend.
[22:16] nar
Next time, "The Authenticity of Genius."
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[01:12] nar
In 1964,
[01:14] nar
Akagi has resurfaced after six years
[01:15] nar
alongside the police officer Yasuoka.
[01:18] nar
However, that Akagi was fake.
[01:22] nar
Even though he's fake,
he still displays amazing skill.
[01:25] nar
But he now faces the real Akagi.
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[01:32] ish
He got it right!
[01:34] nan
He guessed the shanten number
before the tiles were even revealed!
[01:39] kaw
This is interesting.
[01:43] fak
Boss, this isn't that amazing.
[01:46] kaw
Meaning?
[01:47] fak
It's quite simple.
[01:48] kaw
So you're saying that this
wasn't based on instinct,
[01:52] kaw
but that there was a trick?
[01:55] fak
It's nothing that elaborate,
[01:57] fak
but anyone could arrive at it
if they think a bit.
[02:01] fak
There are 136 tiles in total.
[02:04] fak
Out of those, 13 x 9, or 117
tiles, are already uncovered.
[02:09] fak
Which leaves 19 remaining tiles.
[02:11] fak
With enough time,
figuring out what those 19 tiles are
[02:14] fak
is something even a
grade schooler could do.
[02:17] fak
Which means that the remaining
tiles are the 13 tiles I just opened
[02:22] fak
and a 1 and 7 of circles,
1 and 3 of bamboo,
[02:26] fak
and two of the 9 of characters.
[02:27] fak
With these 6 tiles, we have
the remaining 19 tiles.
[02:31] nar
Fake Akagi's claim is that
figuring the shanten number
[02:33] nar
isn't difficult to a player of this level.
[02:37] nar
Among these 19 tiles,
there isn't a single set of three.
[02:40] nar
Based on that fact alone,
it couldn't be better than 2 shanten.
[02:44] nar
That's because, in Mahjong,
a hand can only be in
[02:47] nar
2 shanten once one set of three
and the pair are complete.
[02:50] nar
These 19 tiles do not
satisfy that condition.
[02:53] nar
No matter how you pick the 13 tiles,
you'll get 3 sets of two, no matter what.
[03:00] fak
Which means the worst you
could get is 5 shanten.
[03:04] fak
But the chance for that is fleetingly low.
[03:07] fak
You might get it once in a few hundred tries.
[03:11] fak
So it's either a 3 or 4 shanten.
[03:14] fak
50:50.
[03:16] fak
Actually, judging from the tiles
here, a 3 shanten is more likely.
[03:22] fak
It'll probably be 3 shanten
six or seven out of ten times.
[03:26] fak
So even blurting out 3 shanten without
thinking has a 65% chance of being correct.
[03:31] fak
It's simple probability.
[03:34] fak
Not instinct at all!
[03:36] fak
You might be able to deceive people
not familiar with probability,
[03:39] fak
but that won't work on me, Akagi-san.
[03:47] aka
I see, you are second-rate.
[03:49] fak
What did you say?!
[03:51] aka
You're way off.
[03:53] fak
So you're trying to tell me
[03:54] fak
you got this not through
probability, but through instinct?
[03:57] aka
Who knows?
[03:59] fak
Then prove it.
[04:06] fak
Add three tiles to these ten here
and make it a 4 shanten hand.
[04:11] fak
But you have to pick
from these nine tiles.
[04:20] fak
Pick three tiles from here.
[04:23] fak
If you can actually make a 4 shanten
hand with this, I'll believe...
[04:27] fak
that you have an instinct
that surpasses probability.
[04:35] nan
That's impossible.
[04:36] nan
There are already 4 sets of two.
[04:39] nan
It's already a 4 shanten hand.
[04:41] nan
He can't add any more sets of two.
[04:45] nan
So of those nine tiles,
[04:47] nan
the only tiles he can pick that
don't break that requirement are...
[04:50] nan
These four tiles!
[04:52] nan
But drawing two of the 1 of bamboo
will result in a new set of two,
[04:55] nan
so he can only draw one!
[04:57] nar
The chances aren't good.
[05:00] nar
At first, it might seem that
the chances aren't so bad,
[05:04] nar
seeing that you can
pick four tiles out of nine.
[05:07] nar
However, the chance of actually
picking these three tiles is under 3%.
[05:12] nar
The margin of error is paper thin.
[05:15] fak
So, what will you do?
[05:17] fak
You'll have to walk a tightrope
over a pit of defeat.
[05:22] aka
Sounds interesting.
[05:29] aka
I'll walk that tightrope.
[05:33] nan
He's accepting this ridiculous gamble?!
[05:35] aka
But you're the one who so
confidently proposed this challenge.
[05:41] aka
I won't hear any complaints about the wager.
[05:46] aka
One arm.
[05:51] fak
That's ridiculous.
[05:52] fak
There's no way I would
accept that condition!
[05:56] aka
Why not?
[05:57] fak
Because it's not necessary!
[05:59] aka
So you're saying you're not confident?
[06:01] fak
I am confident!
[06:03] fak
But no matter how low the
chance is, it's not 0%.
[06:07] fak
Even if the chance is as low as 1%,
[06:10] fak
there's no way that you
could wager something
[06:12] fak
as irreplaceable as an arm!
[06:14] fak
Don't get me wrong.
[06:16] fak
I'm not saying that I'm afraid.
[06:17] fak
I'm saying that this gamble is idiotic!
[06:21] fak
I won't put my life on the line
for some amusement or game.
[06:24] fak
I'm not afraid of dying.
[06:26] fak
I just don't want a meaningless death!
[06:29] aka
A meaningless death?
[06:31] aka
Isn't that precisely what gambling is?
[06:34] aka
This "meaningless death," as you call it?
[06:38] aka
That's what I've thought all this time.
[06:41] fak
We're different types.
[06:44] aka
It's not about our types,
it's about the stage we stand on.
[06:48] aka
You've not yet stepped up
onto the gambling stage.
[06:52] aka
That's why you're trying to measure
gambling with the numbers
[06:55] aka
you've squeezed out of your brain.
[06:58] aka
Talk about clueless.
[07:00] fak
What?
[07:02] aka
It's like claiming to know the ocean...
[07:05] aka
when you've only gone in waist-deep.
[07:11] fak
I see what you're doing.
[07:13] fak
You never had the intention
of accepting this challenge.
[07:17] fak
But simply declining would
make you look incompetent.
[07:19] fak
In order to avoid that,
you claimed to accept the challenge,
[07:23] fak
then countered with a
completely ridiculous wager.
[07:26] fak
Your opponent has no
choice but to back down.
[07:28] fak
After that, it was your plan
[07:29] fak
to use some abstract arguments
to confuse everyone.
[07:32] fak
Am I wrong?!
[07:33] akw
Now, wait.
[07:36] akw
Akagi, I do understand what you're saying.
[07:41] akw
But we live in different times now.
[07:46] akw
You should know that, too.
[07:51] guy
Here.
[07:53] kaw
In this day and age,
everything is measured with money.
[07:57] kaw
With the fluidity of money,
always winning isn't a necessity
[08:00] kaw
as long as the net result is positive.
[08:03] kaw
That's why I hold this man and
his statistics in high regard.
[08:09] kaw
That's two million there.
[08:12] kaw
That looks like a salary envelope.
[08:16] kaw
How about it?
[08:17] kaw
Why don't you wager your
salary against my money?
[08:21] kaw
The difference in amount simply
reflects the different odds.
[08:25] kaw
It's like betting on horses.
[08:30] aka
I'll bet on a horse, then.
[08:34] yas
You shouldn't have done that.
[08:37] yas
That man is different.
[08:40] fak
Different?
[08:51] fak
What are you staring at?
[08:54] fak
Do you think you can see through
the tiles or something?
[08:56] aka
Yes.
[08:59] aka
If I didn't have that degree of intuition,
[09:01] aka
I wouldn't have been able to
survive these last six years.
[09:37] nan
He did it!
[09:41] fak
No way... He got those exact three tiles!
[09:48] aka
Well, see you later, Boss.
[09:51] fak
Hold it!
[09:55] fak
I almost missed it.
[09:57] fak
The tiles over here...
Their order has changed slightly.
[10:02] fak
If we check,
[10:03] fak
a 1 of bamboo, a 4 of bamboo,
[10:04] fak
and a 1 of characters should be missing!
[10:06] fak
You took them from there!
[10:09] fak
The tiles you actually picked
are still in your hand!
[10:13] aka
Oh, you noticed?
[10:18] aka
It's a primitive trick, but it's
pretty effective in practice.
[10:23] aka
At the very least, more so than
your lame probability calculations.
[10:28] fak
Shut up.
[10:29] fak
Leave the money here.
[10:31] nan
Akagi...
[10:33] aka
Don't worry, Nangou-san.
[10:38] aka
See ya.
[10:40] fak
Hey!
[10:41] nan
He has them!
[10:42] ---
What?
[10:46] nan
Even if he hadn't switched
them out, he still had them!
[10:50] nan
The same three tiles!
[10:52] fak
No way...
[10:55] fak
Checking the remaining tiles
should give us the proof!
[11:00] fak
They're not there...
those three tiles...
[11:04] yas
Don't get involved with that man.
[11:10] yas
Leave him alone.
[11:17] kaw
Oh, that's it, Osamu.
[11:21] kaw
Mentanpin, iipeikou, two dora.
[11:24] osa
What?
[11:25] osa
Aw man, I was just in first place.
[11:27] guy
What a shame.
[11:30] guy
Yeah, real shame.
[11:34] kaw
You're back late.
[11:37] tah
If you'd come home a bit earlier,
[11:39] tah
you could have joined the fun.
[11:41] tah
Right, Kawashima?
[11:43] kaw
Yeah, but unfortunately...
[11:46] kaw
we're on our last East-South match.
[11:49] aka
How's it going?
[11:50] osa
Not good.
[11:51] osa
They took most of my pay.
[12:01] aka
Osamu and Kawashima have both been losing.
[12:06] aka
I see.
[12:07] nar
This is a setup.
[12:10] nar
If all three were to win,
[12:11] nar
the impression that they're
scalping Osamu would be too obvious.
[12:15] nar
To avoid this, they pick
a loser before starting.
[12:19] nar
Afterwards, only the money Osamu
lost will be split between those three.
[12:28] kaw
I hate losing this much.
[12:30] kaw
It's getting to be too stupid to keep up.
[12:33] tah
Chill, man. Don't be so down.
[12:35] tah
Fortitude can still pay off.
[12:36] ---
Whatever.
[12:38] tah
Pon!
[12:40] kaw
How can you have all those?
[12:42] kaw
Osamu, be careful.
You're in second place.
[12:45] osa
Yeah...
[12:48] kaw
Dealing into a big one will be bad.
[12:50] tah
Bah, nothing to deal into, anyway.
[12:53] tah
Figures I'd get a trash hand.
[12:55] kaw
I don't trust what you call a "trash hand."
[13:01] tah
That's it! Sorry, Kawashima.
[13:05] tah
South, toitoi, so 5,200.
SIGN Toitoi - A hand consisting of all triplets or quads, and a pair.
[13:08] kaw
Ah, screw this!
[13:11] aka
So, they're signaling each other.
[13:15] nar
These three were signaling each other
with the first words of their sentences.
[13:21] (Flashback) tah
Chill, man. Don't be so down.
[13:23] (Flashback) tah
Fortitude can still pay off.
[13:25] nar
The "ch" of "chill" signifies character tiles.
[13:27] nar
The "for" of "fortitude"
signifies the number four.
[13:29] nar
So that was a signal to
discard the 4 of characters.
[13:33] nar
Similarly...
[13:34] tah
Bah, nothing to deal into, anyway.
[13:37] tah
Figures I'd get a trash hand.
[13:38] nar
That was a signal to discard
the five of bamboo.
[13:43] aka
No wonder he's getting hustled,
[13:45] aka
if he can't even figure out this simple trick.
[13:49] osa
Damn it.
[13:52] nar
Kawashima and his gang keep winning
quick hands even in South Hand 3.
[13:58] nar
And at the beginning of South Hand 4...
[14:03] nar
While everybody is still
focusing on their own tiles...
[14:09] nar
Kawashima cheats.
[14:12] nar
He deposits tiles he doesn't
need on the left end of the wall
[14:17] nar
and retrieves good tiles he had
placed at the right end of the wall.
[14:21] nar
This cheat is known as uprooting.
[14:25] nar
A simple, straightforward cheat.
[14:28] nar
But since your hand shrinks
for just one moment,
[14:31] nar
being spotted means it's over.
[14:35] kaw
That dimwit didn't notice anything.
[14:40] kaw
What's that look?
[14:41] kaw
Did he notice?
[14:46] kaw
Must have imagined that.
[14:51] tah
I'll be taking this, then.
[14:55] aka
Sorry. If I had played...
[14:58] osa
No, I'm the one who blew it.
[15:05] aka
You guys...
[15:09] aka
How about a little game with me?
[15:12] kaw
Tomorrow. We're tired.
[15:18] aka
Still tired?
[15:21] kaw
Where did you get that?!
[15:23] aka
It's easy money.
[15:25] aka
If you beat me in this little
gamble, it's yours to take.
[15:30] kaw
What is this game going to be?
[15:35] aka
Osamu's hand was in tenpai with a
closed wait for a the 5 of characters.
[15:39] aka
If I can't complete it by
drawing twice from the 14 tiles
[15:44] aka
in the dead wall, you win.
[15:50] aka
If I do complete it, I win.
[15:54] aka
In that event,
[15:55] aka
I'll take your winnings for today,
this month's pay, and your savings.
[16:00] aka
Meaning your bank books
and signature seals.
[16:02] kaw
Wh-What?
[16:05] nar
Normally, nobody would accept this
reckless gamble for their life savings.
[16:09] nar
However...
[16:11] kaw
Sounds fun. We'll accept!
[16:13] tah
H-Hey!
[16:17] tah
What the hell are you thinking?
[16:20] kaw
Look at the table.
[16:23] kaw
The tile Osamu is waiting
for, the 5 of characters.
[16:26] kaw
One's the dora indicator.
[16:28] kaw
Another in Furuya's discards.
[16:30] kaw
Where do you think the other two are?
[16:34] kaw
They're face down in my hand.
[16:39] tah
That means it's empty?
[16:41] kaw
That's right.
[16:43] kaw
He won't get it, no matter if
he draws twice or ten times.
[16:50] kaw
That's all of our money.
[16:52] aka
Very well.
[16:56] aka
Then, here I go.
[17:00] kaw
You moron!
[17:01] kaw
You can't pick the dora indicator!
[17:04] aka
I can't?
[17:06] kaw
You can't think you can win
by picking a tile that's face-up!
[17:11] aka
That was just a joke.
[17:21] tah
He changed his hand?!
[17:22] kaw
Wait!
[17:23] kaw
Who said that you could
change your hand?!
[17:26] aka
Two draws naturally includes
changing the hand.
[17:30] aka
I can't compromise that rule.
[17:33] aka
I bet you have the last two
5 of characters tiles, anyway.
[17:38] aka
How shamelessly greedy of you
to try to win big money
[17:41] aka
with zero risk.
[17:46] kaw
It's a double pon wait for a
west wind or 6 of characters.
[17:49] kaw
I think there's still one west
wind left in the dead wall.
[17:53] kaw
It's a 1:12 chance.
[17:56] kaw
There's no way he'll get it.
[17:58] kaw
All right, we'll accept that.
[18:01] kaw
Go ahead and draw.
[18:05] kaw
There's no way he'll get it.
[18:07] kaw
1:12 chance for that west wind.
[18:12] kaw
That's the tile I switched out!
[18:15] kaw
He did notice that I cheated!
[18:23] aka
I win.
[18:26] aka
I'll just take these.
[18:32] ---
What do we do now?
[18:38] osa
Is this my salary?
[18:40] aka
It's your share.
[18:42] aka
I won using your hand.
[18:45] aka
Call it a rental fee.
[18:46] aka
See ya.
[18:47] osa
Where are you going?
[18:49] aka
I'm quitting this job.
[18:50] oaw
What?
[18:51] oaw
Wait a minute!
[18:58] oaw
Did you draw the 6 of characters and the
west wind by chance during that bet?
[19:03] aka
There's no way anyone could
get those by chance.
[19:06] aka
I had picked up and switched
out the 6 of characters.
[19:11] osa
I had no idea...
[19:13] aka
Remember when I picked
up the 5 of characters?
[19:16] osa
Yes.
[19:17] aka
When Kawashima complained
and told me to put it back,
[19:20] aka
I picked up the 6 from the discards
and switched it with dead wall tile.
[19:28] aka
Humans are strange.
[19:31] aka
They're alert when you're drawing a tile,
[19:34] aka
but let their guard down
when you return the tile.
[19:38] aka
Even more so while they're focusing on the 5.
[19:41] aka
They would never realize that
[19:43] aka
the seemingly unrelated 6 was replaced
[19:46] aka
with something else in the discards.
[19:48] aka
It's a psychological blind spot.
[19:50] osa
You're right, I didn't notice.
[19:53] osa
But what about the west wind?
[19:55] osa
You picked that from
Kawashima-senpai's wall.
[20:00] osa
You never touched that wall.
[20:03] aka
I didn't need to switch for the west wind.
[20:07] aka
He was uprooting tiles
almost every hand last night.
[20:12] osa
Uprooting?
[20:13] aka
It's a cheat that replaces
unwanted tiles with good tiles.
[20:17] aka
By counting the honor tiles in his discards,
[20:19] aka
it was obvious that the tiles he switched
out were the east or west wind.
[20:24] aka
The challenge was figuring out
which of those tiles was the west.
[20:30] aka
But if you think about it,
that was easy, too.
[20:32] osa
Easy?
[20:34] aka
Whenever he used this cheat,
[20:36] aka
he had the habit of putting the
most useless tile to the very left.
[20:39] aka
That time, Kawashima was the dealer.
[20:43] aka
Meaning that the most useless tile
could not have been an east wind.
[20:46] aka
Isn't that right, Kawashima-senpai?
[20:53] kaw
Don't think you'll get
away with this unscathed.
[20:58] nar
The genius who descended into
darkness, Akagi Shigeru.
[21:02] nar
Destiny was about to be
set in motion again,
[21:05] nar
accompanied by large waves.
[22:16] nar
Next time, "The Announcement
of the Counterattack."
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[01:12] nar
Akagi Shigeru won two million
from the bet against Fake Akagi.
[01:17] nar
On top of that, he took his
coworkers for all they were worth
[01:20] nar
by turning Kawashima's own
cheat against them.
[01:24] nar
But this was not well-received...
[01:28] kaw
You screwed us.
[01:30] kaw
You're going to give us our money back.
[01:32] fur
No, just returning it won't do.
[01:35] fur
You'll have to compensate
us for what you did.
[01:39] kaw
That's right, Akagi.
[01:40] kaw
I think that two million from before will do.
[01:48] kaw
Looks like you understand.
[02:02] akagi
I'll spare you.
[02:05] akagi
But you'll have to clean up this mess.
[02:19] osa
Akagi-san!
[02:20] osa
Please take me with you!
[02:22] osa
I want to become like you!
[02:25] aka
If you hang around me,
[02:28] aka
you'll be dragged into
whatever messes I get into.
[02:35] osa
Who are these people?
[02:37] ish
Akagi.
[02:40] ish
Our boss insists on seeing a match
between you and Fake Akagi.
SIGN Episode 10
SIGN The Announcement of the Counterattack
[02:50] ish
He's playing against the rep
player of the Fujisawa Group.
[02:54] ish
He'll play you after that's done.
[03:06] fak
Akagi.
[03:07] fak
Just wait, it'll be done soon.
[03:10] ish
How's it going?
[03:12] guy
They agreed to play 4 East-South matches.
[03:15] guy
He won the first and second.
[03:17] guy
Right now, it's the last hand of the third.
[03:19] guy
He's got a 12,000 lead on the
Fujisawa Group's rep player, Urabe.
[03:23] guy
It's very likely he'll win again.
[03:26] fak
That's about right.
[03:28] fak
I'll crush this loser within an hour.
[03:32] fak
And then, you'll be next, Akagi.
[03:38] nar
The 14th turn.
[03:42] ura
Ron!
[03:45] ura
It's just a tanyao hand,
but I stay dealer.
[03:49] ura
Not bad, not bad.
[03:50] ura
This was just the beginning.
[03:53] fak
Sorry, Urabe-san.
SIGN Head bump - When two players call ron, the player closest to the discarder (in turn order) gets priority.
[03:59] nar
Fake Akagi does a head bump.
[04:00] ura
I don't believe it!
[04:03] ish
He's won three out of four.
I guess it's over.
[04:11] ura
Damn it!
[04:13] aka
Ishikawa-san, let's go.
[04:15] aka
You have a waiting room, right?
[04:17] ish
What?
[04:18] ish
Yeah, it's this way.
[04:22] ura
What's with that kid?
[04:25] osa
Akagi-san, that guy with the
sunglasses is really good.
[04:30] osa
You're going to play against him next, right?
[04:32] aka
Who knows?
[04:34] osa
"Who knows"?
[04:35] osa
I thought that's why you're here.
[04:38] aka
He might get crushed
before he can play me.
[04:42] aka
It looks like that Urabe guy
is one or two levels better.
[04:46] osa
What?
[04:46] osa
But...
[04:48] kaw
Oh, Akagi, I'm glad you made it.
[04:52] kaw
I've been looking forward
[04:53] kaw
to today's main attraction, the match
between the old and new Akagi—
[04:56] ish
Boss...
[04:57] kaw
What is it?
[04:58] ish
Well... Akagi's saying that our rep player
[05:01] ish
might be crushed by Urabe
before we get to that.
[05:04] kaw
What do you mean, Akagi?
[05:09] aka
Urabe is just baiting Fake Akagi.
[05:13] aka
He's losing on purpose.
[05:16] aka
When Fake Akagi scored his
third consecutive win,
[05:19] aka
this was Urabe's discard pile.
[05:23] aka
And this was his hand.
[05:26] aka
When I walked in,
[05:27] aka
Urabe was just discarding the 2 of
characters that he had just drawn.
[05:32] aka
After that, he immediately
discarded every tile he drew.
[05:34] aka
There's something strange about that.
[05:38] aka
The 5 of bamboo he discarded
in the 10th turn was a dora.
[05:40] aka
It's strange because, after that turn,
he discarded all tiles as he drew them.
[05:44] aka
It's easy to see if you consider how
his hand looked in the 10th turn.
[05:47] aka
Osamu, what would you
discard from this hand?
[05:51] osa
Huh?
[05:52] osa
Hmm...
[05:54] osa
The 5 of bamboo is a dora.
[05:55] osa
So I'd try to go for a sanshoku...
[05:58] osa
and depending on my opponents' discards,
[06:00] osa
I'd discard the 8 of bamboo
or 4 of characters.
[06:04] aka
His direct opponent, Fake Akagi,
had these in his discards.
[06:09] osa
Then I'd discard the 4 of characters.
[06:10] osa
If I wanted to play it safe,
[06:12] osa
the 7 of characters
would be an option, too.
[06:14] aka
That's right.
[06:15] aka
Usually you'd want to go for a solid
tanyao, sanshoku, one dora hand.
[06:20] aka
Seeing that he discarded
the 5 of bamboo
[06:23] aka
and didn't declare riichi
can only mean one thing:
[06:27] aka
He didn't want to win.
[06:30] aka
If he got any reverse dora,
it might have caused an upset.
[06:34] aka
By playing like this, he put
Fake Akagi in first place
[06:38] aka
and lost big, but he'll jack up the
wager and get it back next time.
[06:42] aka
Or...
[06:44] kaw
Or?
[06:45] aka
He'll pull something in the
final East-South match.
[06:52] guy
Boss!
[06:54] guy
Urabe says he has something
serious to discuss.
[06:56] kaw
What is it?
[07:00] ura
Well, I don't know what to say.
[07:03] ura
I just can't face my boss like this.
[07:07] ura
So would it be possible to double the original
wager of 500,000 per East-South match
[07:12] ura
to one million, just for the final match?
[07:17] kaw
One million?
[07:18] ura
Yes, but since we're already
playing for this huge sum,
[07:24] ura
I think it'd be a shame if it ended
with us both in second and third place.
[07:30] ura
So how about we keep playing until
one of us is in first place?
[07:33] fak
So if neither of us is in first place,
we replay the whole East-South match?
[07:37] ura
Right.
[07:39] ura
I knew you were quick!
[07:41] ura
And let's say, if that happens, the same
conditions will apply for the next match.
[07:46] ura
Overtime, if you will.
[07:48] fak
Piss off!
[07:50] fak
I don't have time to play
silly games with you.
[07:53] fak
I've got to—
[07:54] kaw
Calm down.
[07:56] kaw
It's nothing to raise your voice over.
[07:59] kaw
Accept it.
[08:01] kaw
I'll have the other man
wait as long as necessary.
[08:04] kaw
You just have to finish the next
East-South match in first place.
[08:08] kaw
It's simple.
[08:10] fak
If you say so, Boss.
[08:15] ish
Are you sure?
[08:18] kaw
It's exactly as Akagi predicted.
[08:22] kaw
I want to see it with my own eyes...
[08:23] kaw
The skill Urabe has that Akagi claims
[08:25] kaw
puts him one or two levels
above our rep player.
[08:31] nar
With the wager doubled,
[08:33] nar
one million is now riding on the
fourth and final East-South match.
[08:37] nar
Everybody who heard Akagi's prediction
[08:39] nar
assumed that Urabe's
counterattack would begin now.
[08:44] nar
However...
[08:45] fak
Ron!
[08:46] fak
Tanyao, two dora. 5,200.
[08:50] nar
Urabe is not doing well.
[08:53] nar
Fake Akagi, meanwhile, is in great shape.
[08:55] nar
He secured his first
place from the beginning
[08:57] nar
and is setting the pace for the game.
[09:00] nar
The last hand.
[09:01] nar
Fake Akagi is in first place.
[09:04] nar
Yoshikawa is in second place.
[09:06] nar
Finally, Urabe is in third place.
[09:08] nar
It seems that the match will end before
Urabe gets his chance to shine,
[09:11] nar
but he does make a move in the final hand.
[09:14] ura
Pon.
[09:16] fak
Obviously a single suit hand.
[09:18] fak
Chinitsu, toitoi.
[09:20] fak
Throw in a tanyao and it'll be a baiman.
[09:22] fak
It's a hand that could
put him into first place.
[09:25] nar
Fake Akagi is in tenpai.
[09:27] fak
I won't deal into your obvious chinitsu hand.
[09:31] fak
Yoshikawa's riichi is a greater danger,
since he's in second place.
[09:34] fak
With his riichi wager out,
we're 4,700 apart.
[09:37] fak
If I'm not careful, he'll overtake me.
[09:40] fak
I wouldn't want that.
[09:42] fak
So I should discard a
4 of bamboo, a safe tile.
[09:47] ura
Sorry, bro, that's it.
[09:50] ura
Ron!
[09:53] ura
Tanyao, toitoi. 5,200.
[09:57] fak
A single wait for the 4 of bamboo?!
[09:59] fak
If he had gone for a single
wait for the 2 of bamboo,
[10:02] fak
he could have had a baiman!
[10:04] fak
Screw this!
[10:06] fak
You won't ever be able to get
first place if you play like this!
[10:09] fak
You aim too low!
[10:14] ura
It's fine.
[10:15] ura
Surviving is what's important.
[10:17] ura
Besides, by going into the next match,
[10:20] ura
the wager will grow from
one to two million.
[10:24] fak
Grow from one to two million?
[10:27] ura
Yes.
[10:28] fak
We said that the wager
[10:30] fak
would stay the same and we'd
go into the next match!
[10:33] ura
That's not what I said.
[10:35] ura
I said that the same conditions
apply for the next match.
[10:39] ura
The conditions included doubling the
wager from 500,000 to one million.
[10:42] ura
That's the condition I'm talking about.
[10:47] ura
If I wanted to stay at one million,
[10:49] ura
I would have said that we'll
keep the stakes the same.
[10:53] ura
I wouldn't have gone out of my way to
say that the same conditions apply.
[10:57] fak
Screw you! I won't accept that.
[11:00] fak
Cut the shit, you con artist!
[11:08] ura
I don't care if you accept or not.
[11:12] ura
What matters is what the one
with the actual authority says.
[11:16] ura
Boss, what's it gonna be?
[11:18] ura
You'll accept, right?
[11:21] ura
I believe my request is reasonable.
[11:24] ura
I wouldn't even dare to
dream that the boss
[11:28] ura
of the great Kawada Group
would crush such clear logic.
[11:35] ura
Will you accept?
[11:37] ura
Boss, please! I beg you.
[11:41] kaw
All right, I accept.
[11:43] fak
Boss, you don't have to accept.
[11:46] fak
That's playing into his hand!
[11:48] kaw
But he does have a point.
[11:51] fak
Boss...
[11:54] kaw
All you need to do is win the next match.
[11:58] kaw
No need to think too much.
[12:03] nar
The game resumes with the new rules.
[12:06] nar
The game will continue until Urabe
or Fake Akagi finish in first place.
[12:10] nar
If both players are in
second place or lower,
[12:12] nar
the wager is doubled and they'll
play another East-South match.
[12:16] nar
Of course, Fake Akagi wouldn't want that.
[12:19] nar
Even though he tries his best to
get first place, it's fruitless.
[12:23] nar
This is not surprising because
Urabe isn't even concerned
[12:25] nar
with getting first place himself.
[12:27] nar
He's focusing on boosting someone else.
[12:32] yos
Ron.
[12:35] nar
In Mahjong, it's a lot simpler
to prevent someone from
[12:37] nar
getting into first place than to
get into first place yourself.
[12:41] nar
All you have to do is give your
own points to another player.
[12:46] nar
The game carries over.
[12:48] nar
The wager grows from two million
to four million, then to eight million.
[12:54] fak
I'm going for first place,
[12:56] fak
but all he's doing is preventing
me from getting there.
[12:59] fak
Just because it's not
working out the way I want
[13:01] fak
doesn't mean I'm a worse player than he is.
[13:08] nar
Another draw.
[13:09] nar
The wager has reached 16 million.
[13:11] nar
Today, the 16 million yen of 1964
would be worth over 160 million yen.
SIGN Fujisawa Group Boss
Fujisawa
[13:24] kaw
Boss Fujisawa.
[13:26] fuj
It's been a while, Kawada-san.
[13:28] fuj
Well, I received a call...
that the wager was skyrocketing.
[13:35] fuj
I'm going to be a witness.
[13:43] fuj
To protect Urabe and these new rules.
[13:46] kaw
Protect?
[13:47] fuj
Yes. Humans are nothing more than scum.
[13:51] fuj
As the wager gets higher,
[13:54] fuj
their true nature comes out
and they lose their dignity.
[13:57] fuj
Going back on their word becomes natural.
[14:00] fuj
And if someone complains about that,
[14:02] fuj
who knows to what levels they will stoop.
[14:06] ish
Boss Fujisawa, don't you think
that's a bit out of line?
[14:10] fuj
No, no!
[14:11] fuj
I'm certain that Kawada-san would
never do something like that.
[14:16] fuj
But I just got worried because
the wager will continue to grow.
[14:25] nar
The game resumes.
[14:27] nar
The wager is at 16 million.
[14:29] fak
I'm going to put my aspirations
for first place on hold for now.
[14:32] fak
I'll leave him in the dust
[14:34] fak
in the second or the second to
last hand with a quick sprint!
[14:37] fak
I'll take advantage of the weakness
in his plan, this wager doubling!
[14:41] nar
And in the second to last hand...
[14:43] nar
Fake Akagi is in tenpai
during the eighth turn.
[14:47] fak
There it is.
[14:47] fak
The ideal 6 of characters.
[14:50] nar
With this hand,
usually the 2 of circles
[14:52] nar
would be discarded for
the 6 of characters.
[14:54] nar
It's standard to wait for the
1, 4, and 7 of characters.
[14:58] fak
But here...
[15:02] fak
I'm going to go for a single 2 of circles wait!
[15:04] fak
The player after me, Ota,
[15:05] fak
most likely has a circles honitsu.
[15:08] fak
The tiles around 2 and 5 are
obviously in his sights.
[15:11] fak
There's no way I could discard that.
[15:13] fak
So if I go for a 2 of characters wait,
no one will deal into it.
[15:16] fak
Usually, that would mean
I'd have to draw it myself,
[15:20] fak
but there's one person who
will discard it freely.
[15:24] fak
Ota is in first place,
[15:25] fak
so Urabe wants to give him
another push to end this match.
[15:28] fak
It's very probable that he
will deal into his hand.
[15:30] fak
And I'll snipe that 2 of characters
when he discards it.
[15:35] ota
Ron!
[15:37] fak
Sorry, head bump.
[15:40] fak
Red dragon, three dora. Mangan.
[15:44] ish
Boss.
[15:46] fak
Now, if I just win 1,000 points in
the next hand, I'll be in first place.
[15:50] fak
Then you'll be the one who'll
have to put up the 16 million.
[15:54] fak
I've got you cornered, Urabe!
[15:58] ura
That was so close.
[16:02] ura
If you had gotten that win with the
last hand, you could have ended it.
[16:08] ura
You can't win unless you win
one more time in the last hand.
[16:13] ura
That just goes to show
that your luck is lacking.
[16:16] fak
You're the one without luck!
[16:18] fak
I only need to win 1,000 points and—
[16:22] ura
And I'm telling you that the path to
those 1,000 points will be very thorny.
[16:26] ura
With those sissy feet of yours...
[16:30] ura
You won't make it through!
[16:36] fak
Thorny path, my ass!
[16:38] fak
All I need to do is win before anyone else.
[16:43] fak
Come on, a fast hand!
[16:46] fak
I got it!
[16:48] fak
The ideal starting hand.
[16:49] fak
This is the luck I was born with.
[16:52] fak
I'm in a different league than Urabe.
[16:55] nar
And in the ninth turn...
[16:57] fak
Chi!
[17:00] nar
Fake Akagi is in tenpai.
[17:01] nar
A closed wait for the 6 of bamboo.
[17:03] fak
I got you.
[17:05] fak
Thorny path, my ass.
[17:07] fak
You'll be the laughingstock.
[17:09] ura
Riichi!
[17:12] fak
I thought his plan was
to deal into Ota's hand.
[17:15] fak
Did he think Ota was taking too long
[17:17] fak
and figure that he has to take
matters into his own hands?
[17:23] nar
But in the next turn...
[17:26] ura
Kan.
[17:29] fak
Then why did he declare a riichi?
[17:31] fak
The 1 han from the green
dragons would be enough...
[17:34] fak
I get it. Right now we're
17,500 points apart.
[17:38] fak
Riichi, green dragon, sanshoku...
[17:40] fak
He only needs 4 han...
[17:44] fak
He's thinking he'll take the lead if he can
[17:46] fak
get two reverse dora on top.
[17:48] fak
Damn it!
[17:52] nar
He got the 8 of bamboo
while waiting for the 6.
[17:55] nar
Usually this would be the time
to switch to a double-sided
[17:57] nar
wait by discarding a 5 of bamboo, but...
[18:00] fak
The 5 of bamboo is risky.
[18:04] fak
I've got no choice.
[18:08] nar
Fake Akagi decides to stick with
the closed 6 of bamboo wait.
[18:12] nar
However, Urabe's next turn...
[18:15] nar
The 5 of bamboo would have been safe.
[18:19] nar
Ultimately, this mistake will prove fatal.
[18:26] nar
His decision completely backfires.
[18:29] fak
I can't believe it.
[18:31] fak
If I had been a bit more bold,
I would have had this.
[18:34] fak
This sucks.
[18:36] fak
But I won't get desperate.
[18:38] fak
I would like to get rid
of this 9 right away,
[18:40] fak
but it's risky with Urabe.
[18:43] fak
I shouldn't overextend myself here.
[18:45] nar
Fake Akagi throws away
his 6 of bamboo wait.
[18:48] nar
However, in the next turn...
[18:51] nar
That backfires yet again.
[18:58] nar
Fake Akagi waits for a 2, 5, or 8 of bamboo,
as he can no longer with with a 6.
[19:01] kaw
What is he doing?
[19:04] kaw
It doesn't make any sense!
[19:05] kaw
If you're going to discard
the 9 of bamboo here,
[19:08] kaw
why didn't you do it before?
[19:09] kaw
If you had done it earlier,
[19:10] kaw
it would have been
a step towards victory,
[19:12] kaw
but doing it now is just for
maintaining your tenpai.
[19:16] kaw
He's no different than a
confused amateur right now.
[19:20] nar
Fake Akagi draws a risky tile this time.
[19:24] nar
His hand was never backed
by determination.
[19:28] nar
He takes apart his tenpai.
[19:31] nar
After that, there's no stopping it.
[19:34] nar
In a few turns, his hand
is a complete mess,
[19:37] nar
as if it was reflecting his state of mind.
[19:40] nar
He falls apart.
[19:45] ota
Tsumo!
[19:47] nar
Just before the hand ends in a draw,
[19:49] nar
Ota rises to the top with
his draw, causing an upset.
[19:53] nar
Fake Akagi missed his chance to win.
[19:56] nar
But...
[19:57] nar
Despite all that, Fake Akagi is relieved
that Urabe's haneman did not materialize.
[20:04] kaw
He's lacking something.
[20:05] kaw
He's lacking something crucial
that every gambler needs.
[20:11] fuj
Urabe and this kid really
are in different classes.
[20:16] nar
At this time, Urabe's hand
is actually a complete mess.
[20:19] nar
The closed kan he made after
the riichi was just bluff.
[20:22] nar
Forceful play without any safety net.
[20:25] nar
A Mahjong game of brute strength.
[20:27] nar
Compared to that,
Fake Akagi is weak.
[20:30] nar
Victory is something you
attain with equal risk.
[20:34] nar
He avoided that.
[20:37] kaw
Ishikawa.
[20:38] ish
Yes?
[20:39] kaw
Can we call in the real Akagi?
[20:43] kaw
This man is no good.
[20:44] kaw
There's something he lacks.
[20:46] nar
Indeed, Fake Akagi was missing the most
crucial quality that gamblers must have.
[20:54] nar
Akagi's prediction became reality.
[20:57] nar
Urabe continues to push Fake Akagi
further into the corner.
[21:01] nar
The legendary man, Akagi Shigeru...
[21:05] nar
quietly waits for his time.
[22:15] ---
Next time,
"The Foundation for Despair."
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[01:12] nar
Even though victory is
in reach for Fake Akagi,
[01:14] nar
he lets it slip away at the last moment.
[01:17] nar
The wager is doubled from
16 million to 32 million.
[01:21] nar
Just as Akagi predicted,
[01:23] nar
Fake Akagi is pushed further and
further into the corner by Urabe.
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[01:31] nar
East Hand 1, ninth turn.
[01:38] kaw
Can we call in the real Akagi?
[01:42] kaw
This man is no good.
[01:44] kaw
There's something he lacks.
[01:45] ish
Something Fake Akagi lacks?
[01:48] kaw
Yes. He's missing the most crucial
quality that gamblers must have.
[01:53] kaw
He doesn't have a sense of the moment.
[01:57] ish
A sense of the moment?
[02:03] fak
Pinfu, tsumo. 700, 400.
[02:08] kaw
What he believes in is the
ideology known as probability.
[02:13] kaw
But when 32 million is riding
on a single East-South match,
[02:16] kaw
you need something more
than just probability.
[02:20] kaw
The ability to sniff out the tiles.
[02:22] kaw
At this point, he needs to be able
to pick them with pinpoint accuracy.
[02:27] ish
But that's...
[02:28] kaw
He needs to be able to
do that to be relevant.
[02:32] kaw
All he can do is make shallow calculations.
[02:36] kaw
He won't be able to win like that.
[02:41] nar
East Hand 2, 14th turn.
[02:44] nar
Fake Akagi is in tenpai.
[02:46] fak
If I go for a double pon wait on
the 3 of bamboo and 7 of circles,
[02:49] fak
drawing it myself will get me a san ankou.
[02:51] fak
But considering that the
7 of circles is the dora,
[02:55] fak
a tanyao with two dora is enough.
[03:01] ura
A 3 of bamboo from his hand.
[03:02] ura
He's in tenpai.
[03:04] ura
But he still isn't declaring riichi.
[03:07] ura
I guess he concluded that it's not possible
[03:10] ura
given how few tiles are left.
[03:13] ura
That's weak, bro!
[03:15] ura
If you have a good hand,
you've got to be greedy!
[03:19] ura
With that sort of meticulous play style,
[03:21] ura
you won't be able to put
pressure on your opponents
[03:24] ura
or bring luck on your side.
[03:26] ura
Your play style is so timid.
[03:29] ura
I'm going to be much bolder than that.
[03:32] ura
Bro, do you accept opens?
[03:34] fak
Open?
[03:35] ura
The 2 han open riichi.
[03:39] kaw
We do in theory.
[03:42] ura
All right.
[03:43] ura
Riichi, open!
[03:49] fak
He actually did it!
[03:51] fak
And a double pon wait on the
red dragon and the 3 of circles?
[03:55] fak
There are already two red
dragons in the discards.
[03:57] fak
He's only got the 3 of circles to wait for.
[03:59] fak
He must be kidding.
[04:01] fak
There's no way that my three-way
wait will lose to this!
[04:06] fak
Damn it!
[04:08] ish
Urabe's play style is crazy.
[04:12] ish
He discarded the 5 of circles
and declared riichi,
[04:13] ish
which means that he could have
had a two-sided wait, too.
[04:17] kaw
If he had gone for the two-sided wait,
a tsumo would have netted him 7,800.
[04:21] kaw
But if he goes for the san ankou,
with a tsumo he'll get a proper mangan.
[04:26] kaw
And if he gets reverse dora
for any of his triplets,
[04:28] kaw
opening the riichi will boost
him to a dealer baiman.
[04:32] kaw
He could finish everything
with this one hand.
[04:36] kaw
Plus, he probably feels it.
[04:40] kaw
He can smell it...
[04:43] kaw
The winning tile.
[04:44] kaw
The premonition that he'll
draw the 3 of circles.
[04:48] ish
Could it be...
[04:49] fak
Don't draw it!
[04:59] nar
He didn't get the ippatsu,
but in the next turn...
[05:04] ura
Tsumo.
[05:06] ura
Open, tsumo, san ankou. Mangan.
[05:09] ura
Oh, wait, I got three reverse
dora, so it's a baiman.
[05:15] ura
Sorry, bro.
[05:18] fak
No way.
[05:19] fak
This is unbelievable!
[05:24] kaw
Ishikawa, it's no use.
[05:26] kaw
He's out of the question.
[05:28] kaw
Letting him continue to play
will only widen the wound.
[05:33] kaw
Call Akagi!
[05:35] kaw
We must fight a demon with a demon!
[05:43] ish
Akagi!
[05:44] ish
You need to come right now.
[05:45] ish
Our rep player is being torn apart.
[05:47] ish
We need your help.
[05:50] aka
Urabe started winning?
[05:51] ish
Yeah, that bastard got cocky
and kept raising the wager.
[05:55] ish
It's at 32 million now.
[05:57] ish
Please, Akagi!
[05:59] aka
I'm sorry, but I don't feel like it.
[06:02] ish
What are you talking about?
[06:04] ish
Nobody but you can do it!
[06:05] ish
Akagi!
[06:06] aka
What about Osamu?
[06:09] ish
You mean the kid with the freckles?
[06:11] aka
Yes, why don't you have him play?
[06:14] ish
That's not funny.
[06:15] ish
This isn't an opponent
an amateur can handle.
[06:18] aka
Ishikawa-san, keep the wager secret
from Osamu and let him play freely.
[06:23] aka
He might do quite well.
[06:24] ish
Quite well isn't enough, Akagi.
[06:27] aka
Do what you like.
[06:28] aka
If Osamu doesn't play, neither will I.
[06:31] ish
Akagi...
[06:34] ish
So you'll play after Osamu?
[06:37] ish
If he plays, you play?
[06:39] aka
Well, yeah.
[06:42] nar
It's East Hand 4.
[06:46] nar
Osamu has just become dealer.
[06:51] osa
Is it really okay for
me to be playing here?
[06:54] osa
Didn't they say something
about the wager being 500,000?
[06:59] osa
Five hundred grand, huh?
[07:03] nar
Osamu is in tenpai.
[07:05] osa
I'm in tenpai.
[07:07] osa
If I discard the 3 of circles,
[07:08] osa
I'll get a double pon wait for the
7 of bamboo and the north wind.
[07:10] osa
Should I just stick with
that since I'm the dealer?
[07:14] osa
But I'm 38,000 points behind first place.
[07:17] osa
If I play too defensively,
I'll never take over the lead.
[07:20] osa
Let's play it big.
[07:24] ---
Ah...
[07:25] kaw
Not bad.
[07:27] nar
Osamu dismantles his tenpai and
goes for a tanyao, sanshoku hand.
[07:31] nar
Later, that proves to be a good call.
[07:34] nar
A few turns later...
[07:37] nar
Tenpai.
[07:38] nar
An ideal tanyao, pinfu, sanshoku.
[07:40] osa
Riichi!
[07:42] kaw
Usually, people would buckle under
the pressure of a 32 million wager.
[07:48] kaw
Despite his appearance,
he plays quite calmly.
[07:52] kaw
I heard he was a filler until Akagi comes,
[07:55] kaw
but it looks like he's not
completely useless, either.
[08:00] osa
Tsumo!
[08:01] osa
Menzen, pinfu, tsumo, sanshoku.
Mangan! 4,000 from all!
[08:06] nar
Osamu picks up momentum with this win.
[08:10] nar
Moving on to bonus hand 1,
he gets another tsumo.
[08:14] osa
2,700 from all.
[08:16] nar
Urabe, who was barely visible
before, is now almost in reach.
[08:21] nar
The distance is a mere 11,200.
[08:24] nar
A mangan or higher will cause an upset.
[08:30] guy
He's not bad.
[08:32] guy
Even though entering the game dead
last can be relaxing in a way,
[08:35] guy
it's like he's not affected by
the 32 million wager whatsoever.
[08:41] osa
Thirty-two million?!
[08:43] osa
Thirty-two million...
[08:49] osa
He kept quiet
[08:50] osa
because he figured a wager that
high would make me nervous.
[08:54] ---
Thirty-two million...
[08:56] osa
What's going to happen if I lose?
[08:58] osa
Debt?
[09:00] osa
But what if I win?
Even a 10% cut would be...
[09:04] osa
3.2 million.
[09:08] nar
Osamu's starting hand.
[09:11] osa
The 8 of circles is the dora.
[09:13] osa
A tanyao with three dora will
be enough for an upset.
[09:16] osa
I want to win with this hand.
[09:18] osa
If I win, I'll be in first place... if I win...
[09:23] osa
Chi!
[09:25] osa
Chi!
[09:27] ish
Not good.
[09:28] ish
His calm play style from before is gone.
[09:31] ish
You had luck on your side...
[09:32] ish
You should have just have kept
playing like you have been.
[09:36] nar
Osamu was in tenpai after just 6 turns...
[09:39] nar
But he can't draw this
closed wait 4 of circles.
[09:42] nar
He can't draw it.
[09:43] nar
He can't draw it.
[09:45] nar
And in the 10th turn, Urabe...
[09:47] ura
Riichi.
[09:50] nar
Two turns later...
[09:53] osa
Go through!
[09:54] ura
Ron!
[09:56] ura
Riichi, honitsu, one dora. Mangan.
[10:00] osa
He got me.
[10:01] osa
He used up all of my winning tiles.
[10:04] osa
That's why he declared the riichi.
[10:06] osa
It's like he could see
through everything I did...
[10:08] osa
I can't do this.
[10:11] aka
Want to switch, Osamu?
[10:13] osa
Akagi-san!
[10:24] osa
Urabe is 28,400 points ahead.
[10:28] osa
But are you sure about this?
[10:30] osa
There's 32 million riding on this match.
[10:33] osa
You'll be entering in the South round,
and almost 30,000 points behind.
[10:36] osa
There's no guarantee that you will win...
[10:38] aka
You're so stupid.
[10:40] aka
Is that what you were
worrying so much about?
[10:44] aka
None of that matters.
[10:46] aka
It's someone else's money.
[10:48] aka
We can be totally carefree.
[10:49] osa
Akagi-san, how could you say that?
[10:51] aka
It's simply the truth.
[10:53] aka
The ones who should be nervous
are the yakuza men behind us...
[10:57] aka
and Urabe.
[11:00] osa
Urabe?
[11:01] aka
Think about it.
[11:03] aka
Who's the one person who can stand
to lose this match the least?
[11:06] aka
Urabe's the one who raised the
stakes to this ridiculous level.
[11:10] aka
He won't get away with a
[11:12] aka
"Sorry, I screwed up in the
end, and lost 32 million."
[11:15] aka
He'll have to pay,
with cash or his blood.
[11:19] aka
The pressure he's feeling
right now must be immense.
[11:27] ish
I see.
[11:28] ish
Akagi's right.
[11:29] ish
I was too fixated on the point difference
[11:31] ish
and had lost sight of the crucial piece,
the mental state of the opponent.
[11:35] ish
It shows again that Akagi,
[11:38] ish
Akagi Shigeru, is the only
one we can rely on.
[11:40] nar
The game resumes.
[11:42] nar
South Hand 1.
[11:44] ish
All right, show me...
[11:46] ish
My first sight of Akagi Shigeru
playing Mahjong in five years!
[11:49] ish
How is he going to play?
[11:52] nar
But contrary to Ishikawa's expectations,
Akagi doesn't do anything special.
[11:59] nar
Ordinary hands.
[12:01] nar
Even his single han riichi is dodged by Urabe.
[12:04] ura
Tsumo.
[12:08] nar
And in South Hand 2,
[12:10] nar
just like before, Akagi immediately
declares riichi after getting into tenpai.
[12:16] ish
Why, Akagi? Why aren't you doing anything?
[12:20] ish
Shouldn't you have at least waited
for that hand to get better?
[12:27] ura
What's this kid planning?
[12:31] ura
It seems like a tenpai
without any points behind it,
[12:33] ura
but I'll just have to play along
and keep an eye out for now.
[12:36] ura
At least until I can figure
out what he's doing.
[12:41] ura
The worst would be for him
to have the west wind dora.
[12:44] ura
That'd be an instant mangan.
[12:48] ura
What the...
[12:49] ura
The dora passes?
[12:52] ura
That's the third west wind.
[12:54] ura
The possibility that he's
got any dora is gone now.
[12:57] ura
So is he going for a
sanshoku with the lower tiles?
[13:02] nar
But that possibility also
disappears as all four
[13:05] nar
of the 4 of bamboo and 1 of
circles tiles appear in the discards.
[13:09] ura
In that case...
[13:10] ish
There's his winning tile!
[13:12] ish
If he gets lucky with the reverse
dora, it could go to 5,200.
[13:16] ish
Why doesn't he declare his win?
[13:18] ish
It's a direct hit off the opponent!
[13:22] nar
In the 15th turn,
Urabe gets a tsumo win.
[13:27] ura
A win, huh?
[13:28] ura
But with just pinfu, tsumo,
iipeikou, it's only 2,700.
[13:32] ura
Three more turns and
the hand ends in a draw.
[13:34] ura
Instead of taking this cheap win,
I'll take a look at what he has instead.
[13:42] nar
Inexplicably, both Akagi and Urabe
ignore their winning tiles this hand.
[13:48] nar
It ends in a draw.
[13:49] ura
I'm in tenpai.
[13:53] ish
A 5 or 8 of bamboo wait?
[13:55] ish
Urabe could have won in the 15th turn.
[13:59] ish
He ignored that on purpose just
to take a look at our hand!
[14:03] ish
He sensed what we would want to
avoid the most and came straight for it!
[14:08] ura
All right, Akagi-han.
[14:10] ura
Let's see what your riichi was made of.
[14:13] ura
Show me your preemptive riichi.
[14:20] aka
Sorry, I wasn't in tenpai.
[14:24] ish
Akagi!
[14:25] ish
I understand that you
don't want to show it,
[14:27] ish
but the 8,000 point penalty
is too much right now!
[14:30] aka
It's cheap if you consider I'm buying
something with these 8,000 points.
[14:34] aka
Urabe picked up the points
and widened the lead for now.
[14:38] aka
I'm buying three turns in
the future with these 8,000.
[14:42] ish
Three turns in the future?
[14:44] aka
Yes, at the very end,
[14:46] aka
the three turns that will decide
the outcome of the match.
[14:49] aka
I will advance,
and Urabe will retreat.
[14:53] aka
These 8,000 are an unavoidable expense
[14:55] aka
to arrange the time and place for victory.
[14:59] aka
The foundation.
[15:02] nar
But now the difference between
Akagi and Urabe is 45,800.
[15:07] nar
This sort of gap could
be called hopeless.
[15:11] ish
He won't be able to turn
the tables with tsumo wins.
[15:13] ish
He'll need direct hits off the opponent.
[15:17] ish
But if someone of Urabe's
caliber is playing defensively,
[15:20] ish
you'll never be able to get a direct hit.
[15:22] ish
In a normal match,
[15:24] ish
Akagi wouldn't have a chance to win.
[15:26] ish
Now all he can rely on
is a tidal wave of luck,
[15:29] ish
the kind that only comes once in
a hundred... no, a thousand years.
[15:33] ish
A miracle surpassing all logic
[15:35] ish
that will give him baiman or yakuman hands.
[15:41] ish
What a boring starting hand.
[15:44] ish
It's lackluster.
[15:45] ish
No sign of any tidal wave.
[15:51] ish
That's the worst draw he could get.
[15:53] ish
Getting three foreign
wind tiles is the worst.
[15:56] nar
No.
[15:57] nar
That is not the case.
[15:59] nar
Actually, drawing the
east wind was the sign.
[16:01] nar
A sign for the 100-year tidal wave
that would dwarf normal waves!
[16:10] ish
I don't believe it.
[16:12] ish
With just three effective draws,
[16:14] ish
he's already gotten so close
to a yakuman hand.
[16:18] nar
Eighth turn.
[16:21] ish
San ankou.
[16:23] ish
With him, I just can't
predict what will happen.
[16:26] ish
He's far beyond the realm of ordinary men.
[16:29] ish
But now Urabe's the issue.
[16:32] ish
It looks like he's got a quick hand, too.
[16:33] ura
Pon!
[16:36] ish
He's probably in tenpai now.
[16:39] ish
Probably a chinitsu or honitsu of characters.
[16:41] ish
And probably waiting on multiple
tiles in the lower end.
[16:45] ish
This is the moment of
truth for Akagi's hand.
[16:48] ish
Suu ankou... Will it end as an illusion?
[16:51] ish
Or will it become reality and bear fruit?
[16:58] ish
He got it!
[17:00] ---
Suu ankou, tenpai...
[17:03] ish
What's more, with this hand
he can get it from a ron, too!
[17:07] ish
It's a bit risky, but he should
discard the 4 of characters here
[17:10] ish
and wait on the 5 of bamboo for now.
[17:12] ish
Then he can switch to a more
ideal single wait later.
[17:21] aka
Riichi.
[17:23] ish
No!
[17:24] ish
Unthinkable!
[17:26] ish
Why a riichi?
[17:27] ish
Why?!
[17:28] ish
And why the multi-sided wait?
[17:29] ish
If anything, you'd have to go for
the guaranteed suu ankou single wait!
[17:33] ish
Why didn't you wait
for the 5 of bamboo?!
[17:36] aka
Open.
[17:40] ish
I have no idea what's
going on anymore.
[17:45] kaw
There's nothing strange about this.
[17:47] kaw
This is Akagi's logic.
[17:49] ish
Akagi's logic?
[17:50] kaw
Akagi predicted that Urabe was waiting
for the 1, 4, and 7 of characters.
[17:55] kaw
So he can't discard the 4.
[17:58] kaw
If he can't discard it,
he can't change his hand,
[18:00] kaw
so declaring riichi isn't too strange.
[18:02] ish
Yes, but I don't think it
was necessary to open it.
[18:06] kaw
Akagi figured that nobody would
discard a 4 of characters.
[18:10] kaw
Look at the discards of
the player before him.
[18:13] kaw
He was out of the game early on.
[18:15] kaw
He won't discard any character tiles.
[18:17] kaw
If anybody were to do it,
it'd be the player after him.
[18:20] kaw
In the unlikely event
that he would discard it,
[18:22] kaw
Urabe would win because
of the head bump rule.
[18:25] kaw
Either way, there's no way
that Akagi could win
[18:28] kaw
with a ron on a 4 of characters.
[18:30] kaw
If he can only win with a tsumo,
[18:31] kaw
then it doesn't matter
if his hand is open or not.
[18:35] kaw
And that open riichi has another goal.
[18:39] ish
Another goal?
[18:40] kaw
The open suu ankou is a threat,
[18:44] kaw
in order to force Urabe to compromise.
[18:47] nar
Boss Kawada was half-right.
[18:50] nar
Urabe was indeed waiting for
the 1, 4, and 7 of characters.
[18:53] nar
Akagi had guessed correctly.
[18:55] uraw
Suu ankou, open riichi?!
[18:58] uraw
That's too crazy, you idiot!
[19:01] uraw
Damn it!
[19:02] uraw
If Akagi gets the suu ankou,
he'll whip past me in one shot.
[19:13] uraw
Don't tell me...
[19:23] uraw
My heart can't take this.
[19:26] uraw
At least he didn't get the ippatsu.
[19:28] uraw
But there's no need for me
to overextend myself here.
[19:30] uraw
Boss Kawada.
[19:32] uraw
You don't have the silly rule here
that dealing into an open riichi
[19:35] uraw
will turn it into a yakuman hand, right?
[19:38] kaw
No, we don't.
[19:40] ura
Then...
[19:42] ura
I'll deal into his hand!
[19:43] kaw
There it is.
[19:44] ish
Is this what Akagi was aiming for?
[19:46] ish
A direct hit off his opponent
that we thought was impossible.
[19:51] ish
So the suu ankou was a threat to
force Urabe to discard this winning tile?
[19:56] kaw
This gives him at least a mangan.
[19:58] kaw
If he gets reverse dora,
it could go up to a baiman.
[20:01] kaw
While everybody is getting too
excited in this gambling room,
[20:04] kaw
he makes such a realistic
and bold prediction.
[20:07] kaw
A calculated strategy.
[20:09] kaw
He's the real deal,
without any shadow of a doubt.
[20:15] ura
What's up?
[20:16] ura
Why aren't you checking
the reverse dora?
[20:18] aka
Stop dreaming.
[20:20] aka
We keep playing.
[20:21] aka
I have no intention of
picking up cheap points.
[20:27] ish
A-Akagi...
[20:29] aka
Urabe took his hand
apart to deal into mine.
[20:33] aka
He wrongly assumed that this deal
would work out and defanged his hand.
[20:39] aka
In other words, he doesn't have
a hand he can fight with.
[20:43] aka
Then let's advance.
[20:45] aka
I'll advance as much as he retreated.
[20:49] aka
I'll end him with this suu ankou.
[20:52] nar
Urabe's failed plan,
[20:54] nar
Akagi Shigeru's uncompromising fight,
[20:58] nar
and the foundation for
the next three turns...
[21:01] nar
Akagi closes in on Urabe,
slowly but surely.
[22:16] nar
Next time,
"The Magic of Coincidence."
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[01:12] nar
The battle between Akagi and
Urabe has finally begun.
[01:15] nar
Akagi has unleashed an attack
that alarms his opponent.
SIGN Episode 12
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[01:23] ura
What's with this kid?
[01:26] ura
A multi-sided wait for a suu ankou?!
[01:28] ura
After he declared an open riichi,
[01:30] ura
I dealt into his hand with
this 2 of characters.
[01:32] ura
It's mangan hand and
he's going to let it go?
[01:37] ura
So he's dead set on drawing the
tile he needs for the suu ankou?
[01:42] ura
If he really believes that
will happen, he's just trash.
[01:49] ura
Your sense of gambling is weak!
[01:53] ura
If you can't do it,
[01:55] ura
you will have missed the
opportunity to get a
[01:57] ura
direct mangan hit off of me for good.
[02:00] ura
The last straws of victory will
be slipping from your grasp here!
[02:05] ura
Damn, breaking my hand to deal
into his has made my draws crap.
[02:15] ura
This time he passed on a tsumo win.
[02:18] ura
He insists on going for the suu ankou.
[02:20] ura
He's crazy.
[02:24] ura
There it is.
[02:25] ura
I'm back in tenpai.
[02:26] ura
A double pon wait for 6
and 8 of characters.
[02:30] ura
I'll make you regret your
ridiculous play style.
[02:34] nar
And in the 15th turn,
[02:36] nar
Akagi draws yet another winning tile.
[02:40] ish
There it is.
[02:41] ish
He can't draw it out any longer.
[02:43] ish
There are only two draws left.
[02:46] ish
Besides, he can't discard
this tile against Urabe.
[02:48] ish
Urabe has a chinitsu hand...
He can't be waiting for anything else.
[02:58] ura
What the hell?
[02:59] ura
This is how the top player
of the Kawada Group
[03:01] ura
plays in a match with several
million riding on it?
[03:05] ura
He's playing like a drunkard,
with no sense of judgment left.
[03:10] ura
Ron, chinitsu, mangan. That's 12,000!
[03:15] ish
This is worst that could happen.
[03:17] ish
Urabe and Akagi are now
over 70,000 points apart.
[03:22] ish
It's hopeless.
[03:23] ish
Akagi...
[03:26] nar
Only two hands left...
[03:31] ota
What's wrong?
[03:33] aka
You made a mistake.
[03:34] aka
You were off by one.
[03:36] aka
You split it at 12.
[03:39] ota
I'm sorry!
[03:40] yosh
Come on, man.
[03:44] ish
He's calm.
[03:46] ish
Despite being in this hopeless situation.
[03:49] ish
Does he really have
something in the works?
[03:53] ish
A secret plan to cause an upset?
[03:55] nar
Akagi's starting hand.
[03:58] ish
Damn.
[03:59] ish
He gets this hand when
we need something huge?
[04:04] ish
What is this?
[04:06] ish
His hand is getting cheaper and cheaper.
[04:10] ish
He's in tenpai.
[04:12] ish
But there's no point in
winning with this hand.
[04:15] aka
Kan.
[04:19] ish
What?
[04:23] ish
His trash hand suddenly
turned into a big one.
[04:26] ish
Four dora, riichi, tsumo.
That's a haneman.
[04:29] ish
There's no way he won't get a
tsumo with this three-way wait.
[04:32] aka
Riichi.
[04:35] ish
No way!
[04:36] ish
Why did he throw away
the three-way wait?!
[04:39] ish
Why?!
[04:40] ish
Is it to get a direct hit off Urabe?
[04:43] ish
Still, that's no reason to
throw away a three-way wait
[04:47] ish
for a single wait on the north wind!
[04:49] ish
What's more, there are already
two out in the discards.
[04:51] ish
It's a hell wait.
[04:53] ish
Urabe is not that careless.
[04:57] ish
He won't discard it, no matter if it's the
north wind or the 5, 8, or 7 of bamboo.
[05:00] ish
Since it won't come from him,
[05:02] ish
Akagi should have stayed with
the easy three-way wait.
[05:05] ish
And yet he...
[05:07] ish
Wait.
[05:09] ish
The tile we saw in the
beginning was a north wind.
[05:14] ish
So between the dead wall and the
discards, that's 3 north winds out.
[05:19] ish
Meaning this wait is dead.
[05:21] ish
There's no way for him to win.
[05:23] ish
How could he have made such a
mistake at this crucial moment?
[05:27] ish
No, Akagi would never make such
an elementary mistake here.
[05:32] ish
He must have some sort of plan for this.
[05:35] ish
One possibility is that the next dead
wall draw will be the north wind,
[05:40] ish
and that Akagi gets the
last 6 of bamboo for a kan.
[05:44] ish
He'll win by drawing the north
wind from the dead wall.
[05:47] ish
But the fourth 6 of bamboo
is already in the discards.
[05:50] ish
So this won't happen.
[05:52] ish
The only possibility remaining
[05:54] ish
is that someone declares kan
and discards the north wind.
[05:57] ish
But obviously, neither Urabe nor
the other players will declare kan.
[06:02] ish
Nobody would willingly add more dora.
[06:07] ish
It's impossible.
[06:08] ish
There's no chance.
[06:10] ish
That north wind will never be discarded.
[06:14] ish
Another safe tile.
[06:16] ish
After the riichi, Urabe has
only discarded safe tiles.
[06:19] ish
Even if he had kept his three-way wait,
[06:21] ish
even if there was another
north wind somewhere,
[06:24] ish
Urabe would have never
discarded the winning tile.
[06:27] ish
Urabe's going to play it 100% safe.
[06:29] ish
An easy game of Mahjong where
he doesn't need to think.
[06:33] nar
No.
[06:35] nar
In fact, Urabe was struggling.
[06:37] nar
It only seems to be an easy
game to the observers.
[06:41] nar
Urabe sees the four dora.
[06:44] nar
Akagi's riichi is nothing but ominous.
[06:49] ura
I'm in tenpai.
[06:51] ura
But winning with this makes no sense.
[06:54] ura
Safe tile!
[06:57] ura
The guy to my left already
discarded the 7 of characters,
[07:00] ura
so I'm safe for the next turn, too.
[07:01] ura
The problem is the turn after that.
[07:08] ura
The tiles are clumping up...
[07:09] ura
A typical triplet game.
[07:14] ura
What's going on?
[07:16] ura
Getting all the same tiles hurts.
[07:18] ura
I suppose I could declare kan and
hope my draw gives me a safe tile,
[07:22] ura
but if I draw a dangerous tile,
[07:23] ura
all I would have accomplished
is giving him more dora.
[07:29] ura
Wait a second.
[07:30] ura
There are only two turns
left in this hand.
[07:37] ura
So this one passed.
[07:40] ura
Now I'm safe.
[07:42] ura
I've made it through.
[07:43] ura
With only one turn left, it's over.
[07:47] ura
Another dangerous tile...
[07:50] ura
But I have a plan for
the 17th and final turn.
[07:54] ura
The trump card handed to me
by coincidence in the 16th turn.
[07:58] ura
Kan.
[08:03] ura
This tile hasn't been discarded yet.
[08:05] ura
Then another.
[08:06] ura
Kan!
[08:08] ihs
Wh-What is this?
[08:10] ura
This one!
[08:13] ura
This is what I wanted.
[08:15] ura
This is the tile everybody
saw at the beginning
[08:16] ura
of this hand because of that mistake.
[08:19] ura
I'm sure Akagi remembers that, too.
[08:22] ura
There's no way he's
waiting for the north wind.
[08:25] ura
And with these two kan,
he doesn't get to draw anymore.
[08:30] ura
I killed two birds with one stone.
[08:38] ish
Impossible.
[08:40] ish
Am I dreaming?
[08:47] aka
You are like a secure vault right now.
[08:50] aka
Any sort of half-baked attempts
won't let me get points from that vault.
[08:54] aka
Logic won't work.
[08:56] aka
Logic won't even get into the keyhole.
[08:59] aka
In order to get the key in,
I have to use another force.
[09:04] aka
If I had to name it, I'd call
it the force of coincidence.
[09:08] aka
You can't defend against something
that happens by accident.
[09:10] aka
The key will turn with
the help of coincidence.
[09:14] ish
It was all taken into account...
[09:16] ish
Urabe's ironclad defense,
[09:18] ish
his logic...
[09:19] ish
By Akagi's Mahjong which
incorporates coincidence.
[09:22] ish
By his peerless capacity.
[09:27] aka
I guess it's a total of 10 reverse dora.
[09:29] aka
With the riichi, it's a sanbaiman.
[09:32] ish
Two coincidences.
[09:34] ish
The accidental uncovering of the north wind
at the beginning, and Urabe's two kan.
[09:39] ish
So Akagi wasn't waiting so
much for the north wind,
[09:42] ish
but for the kan that would be born
[09:44] ish
from the tendency of Urabe's
hand to yield all those triplets.
[09:48] ish
In other words,
[09:50] ish
he was waiting on the opportunity
created by coincidence.
[09:52] nar
People can evade logic,
[09:54] nar
but can't do the same with coincidence.
[09:56] nar
A strategy that far surpasses the
imagination of the average mind.
[09:59] nar
In fact, maybe it should be called godly?
[10:03] nar
A blade from another realm...
[10:05] nar
Akagi's riichi, with a wait on coincidence.
[10:12] nar
Akagi versus Urabe.
[10:14] nar
The difference between them has
shrunk from over 70,000 to 22,500.
[10:18] nar
Akagi is the dealer for the last hand.
[10:21] nar
If he gets a direct mangan hit off
of Urabe, he'll take over the lead.
[10:27] fuj
Urabe.
[10:28] fuj
Can you do this?
[10:30] ura
Don't worry.
[10:31] ura
That sort of ridiculous
win was a one-time thing.
[10:36] ura
I won't deal into his hand anymore.
[10:38] ura
He won't take over the lead even
if he gets a mangan tsumo win.
[10:44] ura
Basically, he won't be able
to beat me with just one hand.
[10:48] ura
He won't be able to
kill me with one arrow.
[10:52] ura
He'll need a second one.
[10:54] ura
If he only gets 3,900 or 5,800 hands,
he'll need a third or fourth arrow.
[11:01] ura
In contrast, I can win with anything.
[11:04] ura
All I have to do is focus on speed,
[11:08] ura
while he has to worry
about composition, as well.
[11:11] ura
This will make all the difference
in a short finale like this.
[11:15] fuj
Okay.
[11:16] ura
Don't worry, Boss.
[11:19] ura
He'll fall one step short.
[11:21] ura
I will keep my lead.
[11:23] fuj
All right, if you say so,
my mind is at ease.
[11:27] fuj
I won't say anything else.
[11:29] fuj
I'm counting on you.
[11:30] ura
Yes, sir.
[11:33] ura
Damn kid.
[11:35] ura
I won't let everything go your way.
[11:40] nar
It's the final hand.
[11:42] ura
Just you watch, I'm going
to make my getaway.
[11:46] ura
Not bad.
[11:47] ura
I'm lucky.
[11:50] ura
I just need to be fast.
[11:56] ura
I'm going to take the shortest route,
faster than anyone else.
[11:59] ura
I'm in tenpai.
[12:01] ura
An ideal tanyao, pinfu, with
a 2 or 5 of circles wait.
[12:06] ura
Looks like luck's on my side.
[12:09] ura
Now spit it out.
[12:10] ura
I'll teach you that winning
doesn't require these flashy plays!
[12:15] ura
A real pro always wins quietly.
[12:18] aka
Kan.
[12:22] ura
What?
[12:24] ura
The 6 of bamboo?
[12:25] ura
So he has four dora?
[12:28] ura
How can his luck carry on this long?
[12:32] ura
Did he switch the tile?
[12:34] ura
No, he flipped it with just his index finger.
[12:37] ura
That can't be it.
[12:39] ura
His luck is immeasurable.
[12:45] aka
I won't need a second arrow.
[12:47] aka
I will finish you with the first.
[12:49] ura
Four dora... That's a guaranteed
dealer mangan if he wins.
[12:52] ura
The moment I deal into his
hand, my lead will disappear.
[12:55] ura
Even if I avoid a direct hit,
[12:57] ura
a haneman tsumo will also cause an upset.
[13:00] ura
Damn it!
[13:01] ura
Why did I have to get this tile?
[13:03] ura
He's probably going for a tanyao,
[13:05] ura
but it's equally likely that
he's going for honor tiles.
[13:09] ura
East wind, south wind,
and the green dragon
[13:10] ura
all have two tiles out
in the discards already.
[13:12] ura
That only leaves the white and red dragon.
[13:15] ura
I just can't discard this tile.
[13:19] nar
But on the next turn...
[13:23] ura
What?
[13:24] ura
The red dragon passes?
[13:26] ura
That's a relief.
[13:27] ura
If I draw a non-terminal number tile here,
my hand will be revived in one turn.
[13:33] ura
Of all things, a white dragon?
[13:34] ura
My luck is terrible.
[13:36] nar
Again, Urabe has a single
wait for the white dragon
[13:38] nar
where he can only win with a tsumo.
[13:40] ura
It makes more sense to assume
[13:42] ura
he has the first dora,
the 6 of characters, in his hand, too.
[13:45] ura
That means tanyao or an honor tile hand
plus five dora will give him a haneman.
[13:51] ura
I'll lose, even if he doesn't win off me.
[13:54] nar
At this point, Urabe was
still on the offensive.
[13:56] nar
In this situation, not doing so
would be out of the question.
[14:00] aka
Chi!
[14:01] nar
Akagi makes a move on the eighth turn.
[14:06] ura
He discarded a dora?
[14:07] ura
Then it's certain.
[14:09] ura
He's in tenpai.
[14:11] ura
But is it a tanyao hand?
[14:12] ura
Or honor tiles?
[14:13] nar
Seeing Akagi discard a 6 of characters,
the next player follows suit.
[14:19] ura
That's the third.
[14:21] ura
Including the one in my hand,
that's three dora tiles out.
[14:24] ura
The last one must be in his hand.
[14:27] ---
Damn...
[14:28] ura
What?
[14:31] ura
The fourth...
[14:32] ura
Now I know where all the dora are.
[14:34] ura
So that means he discarded the
only dora that he had in his hand.
[14:39] ura
I thought he would take advantage of
this situation and come in for the kill.
[14:44] ura
But I guess he's only after
a mangan hand for now.
[14:50] ura
So even this kid gets complacent.
[14:54] nar
And in the ninth turn,
Urabe is at a crossroads.
[15:00] ura
In order to maintain my tenpai,
[15:02] ura
I have to discard the 8 of bamboo
or the white dragon.
[15:04] ura
The white dragon is the
last remaining honor tile.
[15:07] ura
Yet this 8 of bamboo isn't
exactly safe, either.
[15:11] ura
I don't need to overextend myself here.
[15:12] ura
The haneman threat is gone now.
[15:15] ura
The only danger is a direct mangan hit.
[15:17] ura
And his luck is waning, as well.
[15:21] ura
His call on the 2 of characters proved that.
[15:24] ura
If he still had luck,
he should have won with that 2.
[15:30] ura
Alternatively, a 5 of characters
would have been discarded,
[15:33] ura
and he could've kept his dora.
[15:35] ura
But he had no choice but to discard it.
[15:38] ura
It's a typical example of someone
whose hand is going downhill.
[15:41] ura
He must have discarded it
because he saw the same signs.
[15:44] ura
I'm sure of it.
[15:46] ura
Under these conditions, if I was
bold and dealt into his hand,
[15:49] ura
I'd never be able to look
myself in the eye anymore.
[15:52] ura
In any case, there's a
certain way for me to win.
[15:56] ura
He won't have a chance because
[15:57] ura
I can crush any chance for him
to get a mangan hit off me.
[16:01] ura
Completely!
[16:05] ura
Sorry, but I'm out.
[16:07] ura
I'm going to fight you in the next
game since you're going downhill.
[16:11] ish
Akagi...
[16:13] nar
This 4 of circles is a
crossroads, quite literally.
[16:17] nar
After this tile,
Urabe's game is no longer offensive.
[16:21] nar
He only deals safe tiles.
[16:23] nar
He runs.
[16:25] nar
And as if to push him even
further, in the 13th turn...
[16:31] ura
There it is, the white dragon.
[16:33] ura
That's the third.
[16:34] ura
The possibility of him
having honor tiles is gone.
[16:37] ura
It's almost settled that he
is going for a tanyao hand.
[16:41] ura
This means I can now discard the
terminal and honor tiles I held onto
[16:45] ura
thinking he was after honor tiles.
[16:50] ura
I think I've made it.
[16:51] ura
Yes, I have.
[16:53] ura
I only have three draws left.
[16:58] ura
Even if I am forced to draw more often,
[17:00] ura
I can get out of it with safe tiles
and the terminal and honor tiles.
[17:03] ura
I made a clean getaway.
[17:05] ish
Akagi.
[17:07] aka
It's fine, Ishikawa-san.
[17:09] aka
The outcome of the game is not yet set.
[17:14] aka
Urabe...
[17:15] aka
Sorry, but it's too early to
think you've gotten away.
[17:20] aka
I can still catch up to you.
[17:21] aka
Just watch, I'll make you
freeze in your tracks.
[17:25] nar
Urabe drew a 4 of characters, a tile
that hasn't gotten past Akagi yet.
[17:29] ura
No problem.
[17:30] ura
I've got two safe tiles,
for these two turns.
[17:33] ura
Then I can use a terminal
or honor for the last turn.
[17:38] ura
He's probably out of wacky ideas, too.
[17:40] ura
I've gotten away.
[17:42] nar
It might have looked like Akagi
had exhausted his options.
[17:45] nar
At least, it seemed like there
was no chance of the game ending
[17:48] nar
with Urabe dealing into Akagi's hand.
[17:50] nar
But on the 17th turn...
[17:53] aka
Pon.
[17:55] nar
Akagi revives his hand yet again.
[17:58] nar
A sanshoku doukou.
SIGN Sanshoku Doukou - Three triplets consisting of the same numbers in all three suits.
[18:01] ura
No way.
[18:02] ura
A sanshoku doukou this late in the game?
[18:06] ura
Then he could even be
waiting on a single tile.
[18:10] ura
The terminals and honors I considered
safe are suddenly anything but!
[18:13] ura
I have no safe tiles.
[18:15] ura
Shit.
[18:16] ura
Come on, give me a safe tile!
[18:17] ura
Huh?
[18:18] ura
A 7 of characters?
[18:20] ura
The second?
[18:22] ura
So he has no 7 of characters
triplet in his hand.
[18:25] ura
The most he could have is a double
pon wait for the 7 and something else.
[18:27] ura
As long as I don't discard this,
[18:29] ura
he won't get his sanshoku
doukou hand together.
[18:34] ura
I see.
[18:36] ura
It looks like his monster
luck is also on the way down.
[18:41] ura
You can't touch that north wind, can you?
[18:43] ura
It doesn't matter if you have a
tanyao or a sanshoku doukou hand.
[18:47] ura
I've gotten away.
[18:49] aka
Are you sure?
[18:51] aka
It's still too early to say.
[18:54] aka
Pon.
[18:55] ura
What?
[18:56] ura
Pon?
[19:01] nar
Akagi goes into a naked wait!
SIGN Naked wait - A single wait with only one tile left in your hand.
[19:04] ura
What the hell is this?
[19:06] ura
He has no particular hand and
is going for a naked wait?
[19:09] ura
Why would anyone do this?
[19:13] ura
I see, that pon changed the draw order.
[19:17] ura
Since there's a kan, the last draw
will be the top tile of that wall.
[19:22] ura
So I'll get the last draw.
[19:24] ura
He wants to ron off my last draw?
[19:27] ura
So that's what he was going for?
[19:30] ura
The honor tiles, the open tanyao,
[19:32] ura
and even the hint of a
sanshoku doukou were all bluffs.
[19:37] ura
Are you telling me this kid
had me dancing to his tune?!
[19:41] ura
This is ridiculous.
[19:43] ura
There's too much riding on chance!
[19:45] ura
I won't let him have his way!
[19:48] ura
Give me a safe tile!
[19:50] ura
If I get a safe tile, all his crazy
calculations will have been in vain!
[19:56] nar
Urabe drew a west wind.
[19:58] nar
The west wind has not passed Akagi yet!
[20:03] aka
It's over.
[20:05] aka
If you had drawn a safe tile,
you would have had a chance to win.
[20:10] aka
If you drew a tile that hasn't
passed yet, you're out of luck.
[20:16] aka
It's over.
[20:20] aka
Ishikawa-san, please take care of the rest.
[20:22] ish
H-Hey!
[20:24] ish
What are we supposed
to do without you?
[20:27] ish
It's not certain that it'll end here!
[20:30] aka
It will.
[20:33] aka
I cast a spell on that naked wait.
[20:37] aka
Out of the 14 tiles in his hand,
[20:39] aka
Urabe will pick that tile
and deal into my hand.
[20:41] aka
Without fail.
[20:46] aka
That's all, Ishikawa-san.
[20:48] aka
There's no problem.
[20:51] nar
Everybody just stared at that tile,
unable to believe what they just heard.
[20:57] nar
But in the coming moment,
[20:59] nar
every person in that room
would fear Akagi.
[22:16] nar
Next time, "The Path of the Storm."
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13 - The Path of the Storm
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[01:13] nar
Akagi and Urabe's fight was
at last entering its final stage.
SIGN Episode 13
SIGN The Path of the Storm
[01:22] nar
Akagi is in a naked wait.
[01:30] ish
Wait!
[01:31] ish
What you're saying is crazy!
[01:33] ish
You say Urabe will definitely
deal into your naked wait?
[01:37] ish
How can you be so sure?
[01:40] ish
If he was also in a naked
wait, then I could see it.
[01:42] ish
But he hasn't declared
riichi or called any tiles.
[01:45] ish
He can choose from any of
the 14 tiles in his hand.
[01:48] ish
The odds that he'll deal into your hand
are low, no matter how you look at it!
[01:52] ura
Definitely deal into it?
[01:55] ura
That's nothing but a bluff.
[01:57] ura
His magic could only get his haitei,
SIGN Haitei - Another name for houtei raoyui. 1 han is added if the player wins on the last discard.
[02:00] ura
four dora hand into tenpai,
but nothing more.
[02:06] ura
I have twelve different tiles in
my hand, and can pick any of them.
[02:10] ura
I will be choosing, not him!
[02:13] ura
Even if I have his winning tile in my
hand, it's a one in twelve chance.
[02:18] ura
I won't deal into his hand!
[02:19] ura
I'll dodge it!
[02:20] ura
I'm sure!
[02:23] ura
Is this it?
[02:25] ura
Or this?
[02:26] ---
Damn it!
[02:28] ura
This one!
[02:36] ura
How about it?
[02:37] ura
This can't be it.
[02:39] ura
There's no way it's the 2 of circles!
[02:43] ish
D-Don't tell me...
[02:46] kaw
I-Is this...
[02:48] ish
A dream?
[03:01] ish
Ron...
[03:02] ish
Haitei, four dora. Mangan.
[03:07] ish
He's taken the lead.
[03:09] ura
I-Impossible...
[03:11] ura
Why?
[03:12] ura
How could this be?
[03:18] nar
An upset.
[03:20] nar
An unprecedented upset.
[03:22] nar
The deathmatch between
Akagi and Urabe is over!
[03:27] nar
The miracle happened again.
[03:29] nar
Six years ago on that devilish night, Akagi,
[03:32] nar
who was just a beginner,
defeated the blind master, Ichikawa.
[03:36] nar
That miraculous game was
recreated here tonight.
[03:45] aka
Hey, Osamu.
[03:46] aka
We're going home.
[03:47] aka
I'm done here.
[03:49] aka
I beat Urabe who in
turn defeated the fake.
[03:52] aka
I doubt there's anything left to do.
[03:53] osa
It doesn't seem to be that way.
[03:58] kaw
Akagi, you're the real deal,
without a shadow of a doubt.
[04:05] kaw
Don't worry.
[04:07] kaw
I didn't come here to try something
cheap like recruiting you.
[04:09] kaw
I just want you to explain.
[04:16] kaw
How did you know that Urabe would pick
[04:18] kaw
and discard the 2 of circles
in that last hand?
[04:22] kaw
If I let you go without hearing that,
I won't be able to sleep tonight.
[04:27] kaw
It'd be torture.
[04:29] kaw
It would be polite to
explain it before you go.
[04:31] kaw
Am I wrong?
[04:35] aka
All right.
[04:37] aka
It won't take long to explain.
[04:43] kaw
The others left, but the
tiles are left untouched.
[04:47] kaw
I figured it would be easier
to explain that way.
[04:49] kaw
Hey.
[04:50] guy
Yes!
[04:55] kaw
How could you know that he would
[04:58] kaw
definitely discard a 2 of
circles from this hand?
[05:01] kaw
Before that, how did you even know
he had a 2 of circles at all?
[05:06] aka
Boss, the reason that Urabe had
and discarded the 2 of circles
[05:13] aka
is the pinnacle of the building block
structure that I call strategy.
[05:21] aka
Explaining just that will be hard to follow,
[05:24] aka
so I'll start at the bottom.
[05:26] kaw
The bottom?
[05:27] aka
This is actually the most important.
[05:31] aka
In order to win at Mahjong,
you have to understand how
[05:34] aka
your opponent thinks on
the most primal level.
[05:37] aka
That's the foundation.
[05:40] aka
I built a strategy on top of that foundation.
[05:44] aka
I kept building it higher and higher.
[05:50] aka
By doing so, I was able to guide Urabe
[05:53] aka
to the hell of discarding
the 2 of circles in the end.
[05:57] aka
People show their true nature
when they're faced with danger.
[06:00] aka
You have to measure that
[06:02] aka
when he's in his normal state
to be certain it's accurate.
[06:06] aka
It's crucial to determine his
true nature in the beginning.
[06:10] aka
Sending in Osamu as
bait was part of that.
[06:15] aka
Urabe let Osamu play freely for a while.
[06:18] aka
Someone like him should have instantly
[06:21] aka
had a good idea of Osamu's
skill the moment he sat down.
[06:24] aka
Despite that, he opted
to observe him longer.
[06:28] aka
That's when I started to sense something.
[06:32] ish
Sense what?
[06:34] aka
The psychological habit rooted
in the deepest recesses of his mind.
[06:38] aka
Its tendency started to shimmer through.
[06:42] aka
Simply put, when he's facing danger,
he will neither charge in nor retreat.
[06:49] aka
He's the kind of player who will stand still.
[06:52] aka
Deferring was the true
nature of his game style.
[06:54] aka
That's why he just observed
Osamu, to see what was up.
[07:00] aka
This tendency continued even
after I joined the game.
[07:03] aka
When I declared my empty riichi,
he meticulously played it safe.
[07:08] aka
While he skillfully evaded my wait and won,
[07:10] aka
he lost something important in return.
[07:13] ish
Something important?
[07:14] aka
Through his discards as well
as his own winning hand,
[07:18] aka
I was able to discern the
habits and tendencies
[07:20] aka
that applied to what he considered safe,
[07:22] aka
and what he considered dangerous.
[07:25] aka
Basically his playing style.
[07:28] aka
And this is the kind of information
[07:30] aka
that decides a game of Mahjong in the end.
[07:33] aka
What he lost was information
about himself.
[07:36] aka
I, on the other hand, hid everything.
[07:39] aka
In South Hand 2, I even went
so far as to declare riichi
[07:42] aka
and then cover my tiles despite
having to pay the 8,000 point penalty.
[07:46] aka
At that moment, Urabe gained a
lot of land in terms of points,
[07:50] aka
but in terms of intelligence,
I had crushed him.
[07:53] aka
He didn't have any tangible
information about me.
[07:58] aka
That was my plan.
[08:01] aka
The next hand, I pulled
the suu ankou open riichi.
[08:04] aka
On top of that,
I took the suu ankou win
[08:06] aka
not just once, but three times,
[08:08] aka
effectively losing because
of my recklessness.
[08:10] aka
It was a play style that
absolutely didn't fit
[08:13] aka
Urabe's logic and experience,
so he was unable to process it.
[08:16] aka
Urabe picked up more points that hand,
[08:18] aka
but his impression of
me became even murkier.
[08:22] aka
He wasn't able to shake this
eerie impression whatsoever,
[08:26] aka
but he had a giant lead
of 70,000 at that point.
[08:29] aka
That's why he began to run away.
[08:32] aka
So I based my attack on his escape route.
[08:34] aka
The wait on coincidence for the north wind.
[08:36] aka
Normally, this impossible
wait would be hopeless.
[08:40] aka
What's more, this sanbaiman
hand with ten dora
[08:41] aka
shrank our point difference in a big way.
[08:44] aka
This one blow put him
in range for an upset.
[08:47] (Flashback) fuj
Urabe.
[08:48] (Flashback) fuj
Can you do this?
[08:50] (Flashback) ura
Don't worry.
[08:52] aka
At that time,
Urabe pretended to be calm,
[08:55] aka
but he was quite shaken on the inside.
[08:57] aka
In the final stage,
his ass was already on fire,
[09:01] aka
but he still didn't know anything about me.
[09:04] aka
There was a huge amount of
money riding on this match,
[09:06] aka
but he couldn't even see the
opponent he was fighting.
[09:15] aka
In that situation, the only thing
Urabe had left to rely on was logic.
[09:20] aka
The rational thinking he
cultivated over many years.
[09:23] aka
But that rationality is the very
thing that created another opening.
[09:27] aka
For me as the pursuer,
making him think that way was my goal.
[09:33] aka
In the final hand of the game, I was dealer.
[09:35] aka
I could cause an upset
with a haneman tsumo win,
[09:37] aka
or with a mangan hit off Urabe.
[09:40] aka
In the beginning of the hand,
Urabe was still on the offensive.
[09:43] aka
However, that was only because
logic told him to do so,
[09:47] aka
and not because he had
the conviction to win.
[09:50] aka
That kind of offensive can be easily
overturned with just the slightest change.
[09:55] (Flashback) aka
Kan.
[10:00] aka
Urabe was visibly shaken, in shock.
[10:04] aka
But he didn't give up yet.
[10:05] aka
That's because I could potentially
get a haneman tsumo.
[10:08] aka
Still, he didn't come straight at me.
[10:11] aka
He played it safe.
[10:13] aka
Discarding the 2 of circles.
[10:14] aka
This is his true nature.
[10:16] aka
His primal nature that comes
out when he's in a tough spot.
[10:18] aka
His tendency of deferring.
[10:20] aka
Neither attacking nor defending.
[10:22] aka
His mind forces him into a standstill.
[10:26] aka
That move was the proof that
his will was weakening.
[10:32] aka
Then I called the 2 of characters and
[10:34] aka
the location of all the
dora became apparent.
[10:37] aka
Once the only risk was a
direct mangan hit off him,
[10:39] aka
he couldn't handle it anymore.
[10:42] aka
After he drew a risky tile next,
[10:44] aka
he was out of the game and
discarded the 4 of circles.
[10:48] aka
That was also inspired by
the tendency of deferring.
[10:50] aka
The idea was to settle the match
[10:51] aka
in the next game instead
of the current one.
[10:54] aka
Running away and calling it deferring.
[10:57] aka
As expected, after the 4 of circles,
he only discarded safe tiles.
[11:00] aka
He was out the game.
[11:02] aka
Now the possibility of him
winning that hand was gone.
[11:05] aka
He retreated in the moment of truth.
[11:08] aka
The "three turns in the future" that I
went so far as to pay the 8,000 penalty for
[11:12] aka
were these three discards:
[11:14] aka
The red dragon, the 6 of characters
that made the dora safe,
[11:18] aka
and the 4 of circles.
[11:21] aka
Especially the 4 of circles in the ninth turn.
[11:23] aka
I wanted to coax out his decision to retreat.
[11:28] aka
If he had still been
on the offensive there,
[11:31] aka
I don't know how the game
would have ended up.
[11:34] aka
His final hand looked like this,
[11:37] aka
so from his discards, you could tell
there were many ways he could've won.
[11:41] aka
For example, he could
have won like this.
[11:45] aka
But this is pointless as there
is no end to these speculations.
[11:52] aka
After all, it is my style of Mahjong
[11:55] aka
to restrict his ability to move.
[11:56] nar
Everybody was captivated
and couldn't say a word.
[11:59] nar
Akagi's logic that flowed
quietly through his explanation
[12:02] nar
wasn't just simple probabilities.
[12:05] nar
Akagi's logic kept evolving according to
[12:09] nar
his opponent's state of mind,
through which one could almost hear
[12:11] nar
Urabe's blood flowing, the air
he breathed in and out...
[12:14] nar
This logic was a living entity.
[12:23] aka
In the end, this 4 of
circles was the crossroads.
[12:26] aka
After that, Urabe was on full defense.
[12:29] aka
Nothing but safe tiles.
He was out of the game.
[12:32] aka
But it's only natural if you think about it.
[12:34] aka
At that point, I had exposed two
parts of my hand and discarded a dora.
[12:38] aka
Additionally, Urabe had wagered
money that far surpassed his capacity.
[12:43] aka
He wouldn't jump to risky conclusions.
[12:45] aka
He had to assume I was in tenpai.
[12:46] aka
Which meant he couldn't discard
any risky tiles whatsoever.
[12:49] aka
He discarded safe tiles
as long as he had them.
[12:52] aka
But that inflexibility
was actually his downfall.
[12:56] aka
At that point, I was still far from tenpai.
[12:59] aka
But he didn't even
consider that possibility.
[13:02] aka
He was just afraid, wasting
his lifelines, the safe tiles.
[13:08] aka
When it actually mattered, he ran out.
[13:12] aka
On the very last discard,
he had no more safe tiles.
[13:16] aka
What he assumed to be a tanyao
hand was actually a hand
[13:18] aka
that was specialized to go for one
single discard, his last tile.
[13:22] aka
Not only that, it was a single wait.
[13:25] aka
That's not something he can predict.
[13:26] aka
It's far beyond his ability
to predict anyway.
[13:30] aka
If anything, he should have just
directly discarded the west wind he drew.
[13:33] aka
This was a random tile, it couldn't
have been part of the trap.
[13:38] aka
But he couldn't do that.
[13:40] aka
That's how deep the roots
of his suspicions went.
[13:43] aka
At that moment, every single tile
in his hand looked risky to him.
[13:47] aka
First, he couldn't immediately
discard the west wind he drew.
[13:50] aka
The last draw was from my wall.
[13:53] aka
A west wind he was forced to draw
because of the north I called earlier.
[13:55] aka
I might've made him draw it on purpose.
[13:57] aka
Once he thought that,
he couldn't discard it.
[14:00] aka
Next, the green dragon.
[14:01] aka
He couldn't discard it, either.
[14:03] aka
The honor tiles in his hands were the
[14:05] aka
safe tiles against the tanyao
hand I kept hinting at.
[14:08] aka
To him, those must have been the
most obvious tiles for me to target.
[14:12] aka
6, 8, and 9 of bamboo are
out of the question, too.
[14:14] aka
They're too close to the
7 of bamboo in my kan.
[14:17] aka
Normally, tiles around there
shouldn't be in my hand,
[14:20] aka
but I'm someone who might
secretly keep just one.
[14:24] aka
Similarly, the tiles around the
7 of circles I called are out.
[14:27] aka
The 7 of characters is out, too.
[14:29] aka
That's the remaining tile
of the sanshoku doukou.
[14:31] aka
If I'm going for the sanshoku doukou,
[14:33] aka
it's highly likely that I have a tile leftover.
[14:35] aka
He can't discard it.
[14:37] aka
The 4 and 5 of characters
[14:38] aka
are too close to my last discard,
the 3 of characters.
[14:41] aka
Naturally, he can't discard them, either.
[14:45] aka
In the end, the only two tiles
[14:47] aka
Urabe could even consider
discarding out of his 14 tiles
[14:50] aka
were the 2 of circles and the 4 of bamboo.
[14:53] aka
The 4 of bamboo is right next
to the 5 of bamboo
[14:56] aka
that I discarded from
my hand after my kan.
[14:58] aka
That means I could have had a
4 and 5 of bamboo in my hand
[15:02] aka
and discarded the 5 after
my 7 of bamboo kan.
[15:05] aka
If that were the case, I'd be
waiting for the 4 of bamboo.
[15:08] aka
On the other hand,
the 2 of circles had its neighbors,
[15:12] aka
1, 3, 4 of circles, immediately
discarded the entire time.
[15:18] aka
That's what Urabe would think.
[15:23] aka
But for someone who's setting a trap,
[15:25] aka
the very same reason I just used
[15:28] aka
for why the tile might be safe
becomes the reason to wait for it.
[15:32] (Flashback) aka
Pon.
[15:48] (Flashback) ---
This is it!
[15:57] aka
It was a good wait, wasn't it?
[16:01] aka
Osamu, let's go.
[16:03] osa
Ah, sure.
[16:06] kaw
Wait.
[16:06] kaw
That was only half of it.
[16:11] kaw
I get why the 2 of circles had a
high chance of being discarded.
[16:14] kaw
But no matter how high the chance is,
[16:16] kaw
if he doesn't have it, it's meaningless.
[16:18] kaw
That means you knew he had
that tile in his hand, didn't you?
[16:23] kaw
Otherwise there'd be no reason
to wait for that 2 of circles.
[16:27] kaw
I want to know how you knew.
[16:33] aka
I got that 2 of circles on the seventh turn.
[16:36] aka
In the previous turn,
when Urabe discarded that tile,
[16:40] aka
a scent was left on it.
[16:43] kaw
A scent?
[16:44] aka
Yes.
[16:45] aka
Before he discarded that tile,
Urabe was still on the offensive.
[16:50] aka
He was in tenpai at that moment.
[16:54] aka
But he drew a live tile, the red dragon.
[16:57] aka
Considering my four dora,
he couldn't discard it,
[17:00] aka
but he couldn't get out
of the game, either.
[17:02] aka
So he went for a safe tile.
[17:04] aka
The tile he picked for that was
the 2 of circles from his pair.
[17:08] aka
It was his habit to use the
pair in situations like this.
[17:13] aka
In fact, I saw Urabe do
that many times tonight.
[17:16] aka
Whether it was when faced with
Osamu or my riichi after that.
[17:22] aka
That was a habit he couldn't shake.
[17:25] aka
A pattern ingrained in his body.
[17:27] aka
So that 2 of circles he
discarded last was the
[17:30] aka
leftover tile from the pair
he broke up in the sixth turn.
[17:33] aka
It was the fatal baggage
he failed to take care of.
[17:39] aka
That was the 2 of circles.
[18:05] ura
That was a high price to pay.
[18:08] ura
Just because I left such
a subtle sign behind.
[18:12] ura
The debt of 32 million...
[18:14] ura
and on top of that...
[18:17] ura
this!
[18:21] osa
Akagi-san, let's go.
[18:24] ura
Wait!
[18:27] ura
Mark my words, Akagi!
[18:29] ura
I will defeat you!
[18:31] ura
Once my wounds are healed
and I've paid off this debt,
[18:34] ura
no matter how long it takes,
[18:36] ura
I will defeat you someday! I swear!
[18:42] osa
Akagi-san, let's leave him.
[18:44] osa
He's desperate now,
you don't know what he might do.
[18:48] aka
Desperate?
[18:49] aka
He's not that kind of person.
[18:55] ura
Akagi!
[18:59] aka
Urabe, you'll defeat me someday?
[19:02] aka
That's not possible.
[19:06] ura
You bastard!
[19:07] ura
Do you want me to kill you?!
[19:09] aka
Urabe, you don't have to do it someday.
[19:12] aka
You can do it now.
[19:14] aka
I'll play one East-South match with you.
[19:16] aka
If I lose, I'll take over your entire debt.
[19:20] aka
However, if I win,
[19:23] aka
I will take both of your hands.
[19:27] osa
Akagi-san!
[19:28] kaw
That's ridiculous.
[19:30] kaw
There's no benefit for you,
regardless of the outcome.
[19:34] aka
I've never made a bet in my life
based on what I could gain.
[19:38] aka
People just die meaningless deaths
because of the outcome of a gamble.
[19:42] aka
It's better that way.
[19:44] aka
That way, we can get closer
to the essence of gambling,
[19:49] aka
the grip of unreasonable death.
[19:54] aka
That's the real thrill of
gambling, right, Urabe?
[20:11] osa
Akagi-san!
[20:14] osa
Give me a break!
[20:16] osa
What were you going to
do if he had accepted?
[20:19] aka
That wouldn't have happened.
[20:22] osa
But he was so...
[20:24] aka
His anger wasn't real anger.
[20:27] aka
That's why he passed on
his chance at revenge.
[20:32] aka
That just shows what kind of man he was.
[20:34] aka
He's only a regular guy
[20:36] aka
who weighs even the pros
and cons of getting angry.
[20:38] aka
That man will never experience
genuine anger in his life.
[20:42] aka
Just like he'll never be
able to have a true match.
[20:46] aka
I also can't have a true match...
[20:49] aka
not against someone like him.
[20:51] aka
That's not enough.
[20:54] nar
What Akagi really desires is a true match
where one's life is literally on the line.
[21:03] nar
One year later, Akagi would
actually have that match.
[22:16] nar
Next time,
"A New Chapter of the Rakshasa."
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SIGN 1965
Summer...
[01:38] Guy
They're dumping here again.
[01:48] Guy
Damn it.
[01:53] Guy
Those pests.
[01:56] Guy
Hey!
[01:57] Guy
What the hell are you doing?!
[02:00] Guy
This is city property!
[02:02] Guy
Dumping trash here is—
[02:37] Nar
This was how it began.
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[02:47] Nar
The buried corpse was that of a young man.
[02:50] Nar
With no significant marks on the body,
[02:52] Nar
the cause of death was only
determined later through autopsy.
[03:13] Nar
The autopsy revealed
that the cause of death
[03:14] Nar
had been shock induced
by loss of blood.
[03:17] Nar
However, there was no
visible wound that could
[03:21] Nar
have explained the fatal loss of blood.
[03:23] Nar
This was the only thing found.
[03:25] Nar
A small wound on the left forearm,
resembling one made by a syringe.
[03:28] Nar
The coroner determined this was the
opening from which the blood was drawn.
[03:31] Nar
The investigatory headquarters
could not say if this had been homicide
[03:35] Nar
or some kind of medical
procedure gone wrong.
[03:37] Nar
The official announcement was
that the young man had died
[03:40] Nar
due to a massive amount of blood
loss, drawn from his left forearm.
[03:44] Nar
A very peculiar death.
SIGN Missing Persons Incidents Continue
[03:48] Nar
The media jumped on the
bandwagon, and for months,
SIGN A Vampire Appears!
[03:51] Nar
these young missing persons were
a great piece of sensationalism.
[03:57] Man
Excuse me, Yasuoka-san.
[04:00] Man
It's about that incident the other day...
[04:03] Man
Can you just come with me?
[04:05] Yas
Y-Yes.
[04:19] Man
What do you think?
[04:23] Yas
That's him, no doubt.
[04:26] Yas
It's Hirayama Yukio.
[04:31] Man
Senpai, do you...
[04:33] Yas
Huh?
[04:34] Man
Do you have any idea who did it?
[04:37] Yas
Hey, hey!
[04:39] Yas
How the hell would I?
[04:40] Yas
Why me?
[04:44] Nar
Hirayama Yukio had been a rep player
for one of the yakuza groups,
[04:48] Nar
and Yasuoka had once been his manager.
[04:51] Nar
If only for a short time,
they had fought side by side.
[04:56] Nar
That's right.
[04:57] Nar
Hirayama was the fake Akagi.
[05:03] Nar
And right then,
Yasuoka had an epiphany.
[05:07] Nar
A thought that had gradually
come to coalesce in his mind.
[05:11] Nar
That's right.
[05:12] Nar
He had a clue about
these mysterious deaths.
SIGN Inada Group Second in Command
Ougi
[05:18] Yas
I'm sorry I made you come all
the way out here, Ougi-san.
[05:22] Oug
It's not every day I get a
call from a police officer.
[05:26] Oug
So why did you call?
[05:29] Yas
Why don't we have a drink first?
[05:38] Yas
I know it's sudden,
but it's about that.
[05:43] Oug
I won't deny it.
[05:44] Oug
Our group was involved and introduced
a few young guys to the old man.
[05:49] Oug
Outcasts and youngsters that
nobody would bother looking for.
[05:54] Oug
But the stakes for these games
were always outrageously high.
[05:58] Oug
And then, there were special rules.
[06:00] Oug
Even a skilled person
would have trouble
[06:02] Oug
keeping a clear head under
those circumstances.
[06:05] Oug
It's a game of Mahjong someone
poor could never win.
[06:08] Oug
But lately, there haven't
been any requests.
[06:16] Oug
Maybe the old man got
sick of this game.
[06:18] Yas
I'm not so sure about that.
[06:21] Yas
Around when did he stop calling you?
[06:24] Oug
Four, five months ago?
[06:27] Yas
I knew it.
[06:28] Oug
Huh?
[06:29] Yas
It fits completely with the string
of young people disappearing lately.
[06:36] Yas
What this means is that
the old man's little hobby
[06:39] Yas
has intensified and he's a monster now.
[06:42] Yas
That corpse they found on Mount Tama
was just one of his victims.
[06:47] Yas
Ougi-san.
[06:49] Yas
I'm thinking of hunting down this
old man... I mean, this monster.
[06:54] Yas
With our own monster.
[06:56] Oug
Monster?
[06:58] Yas
Yes.
[06:59] Yas
We'll pit him against the
monster Akagi Shigeru.
[07:03] Yas
They say the old man is
worth about one billion.
[07:06] Yas
If Akagi wins, we'll split
it between us three ways.
[07:12] Nar
One billion yen in 1965 would
be roughly ten billion yen today.
[07:18] Guy
Akagi Shigeru?
[07:20] Guy
Couldn't find him.
[07:23] Guy
I tried asking around
[07:25] Guy
about a rep player fitting that
description, but there was none.
[07:29] Guy
There is one rumor that's
caught my attention, though.
[07:33] Guy
Supposedly there's this young guy
who keeps winning every single game
[07:37] Guy
at one of our affiliate
group's chou-han operations.
SIGN Chou-han - a game where players bet on the even/odd outcome of two dice.
[07:40] Guy
Some twenty or so year old punk.
[07:44] Guy
He takes on a lot of crazy bets,
[07:46] Guy
but he's just some wash-out with no backup.
[07:48] Guy
Based on your description,
that just might be him.
[07:55] Nar
A few days later,
[07:56] Nar
Yasuoka and Ougi were on their way
to meet the Kurata Group in Chiba
[08:01] Nar
to confirm if the young man on the
winning streak was, indeed, Akagi.
[08:05] Nar
If it is not him, Yasuoka's plans
will all go down the drain.
SIGN Inside the Kurata Group's Gambling House
[08:17] Nar
Just then, the Kurata Group,
who had lost about 20 million yen
[08:20] Nar
in the three months to this young man,
were about to take some drastic measures.
[08:27] Nar
20 million yen would be worth
close to 200 million yen today.
[08:33] Guy
All right.
[08:34] Guy
Listen up.
[08:36] Guy
Everybody in this room, myself included,
agrees that this roll was odd with 4 and 5.
[08:43] Guy
You're the only one left.
[08:45] Guy
As long as you don't babble
nonsense, it'll all go down well.
[08:50] Nar
The young man was Akagi Shigeru.
[08:57] Guy
Saying the wrong thing will
only insult these people here.
[09:02] Guy
So think about that before you answer.
[09:06] Guy
Is the roll even or odd?
[09:15] Guy
I know you know what I'm talking about.
[09:19] Guy
I'm not asking you whether
this roll is even or odd.
[09:24] Guy
What I'm asking about is your life.
[09:28] Guy
I'm asking if you want to live,
or if you want to die.
[09:41] Aka
Even if there was a monster
[09:44] Aka
that controlled this country...
no, the entire world,
[09:51] Aka
even this person could not twist the truth.
[09:57] Aka
The truth that everybody has to die,
and the outcome of a gamble!
[10:03] Aka
It's even.
[10:06] Boss
You little bastard!
[10:07] Boss
How long are you going to screw around?!
[10:20] Guy
I'm only going to ask you one more time.
[10:22] Guy
This is your last chance.
[10:24] Guy
Pick the wrong words
and you'll lose your head.
[10:30] Guy
Is this even or odd?
[11:08] Aka
Even.
[11:13] Guy
I see.
[11:15] Guy
Then die!
[11:19] Yasu
Hold it!
[11:25] Boss
Can't you hear that?
[11:26] Boss
We have a guest.
[11:29] Man
Is anyone there?
[11:35] Boss
Go.
[11:38] Stooge
Yes, sir.
[11:59] Oug
We want to play.
[12:01] Oug
The gambling house is open, right?
[12:04] Guy
I'm sorry, but we closed early today.
[12:08] Oug
You're closed?
[12:09] Guy
I am terribly sorry, since you've
come all this way, but...
[12:12] Guy
If you could please leave now.
[12:18] Oug
Hey!
[12:20] Oug
What the hell is up with him?
[12:22] Oug
Talk about abrupt.
[12:24] Oug
What do you want to do?
[12:25] Oug
Shall we just go?
[12:28] Yasu
Blood.
[12:29] Oug
What's wrong?
[12:31] Oug
Yasuoka!
[12:35] Guy
Hey!
[12:36] Guy
Where do you think you're going?
[12:39] Yasu
Akagi!
[12:40] Yasu
Akagi!
[12:53] Yasu
Akagi...
[12:54] Boss1
Who the hell are you?
[12:55] Boss1
You bastard...
[12:56] Boss
Wait.
[12:58] Boss
You're Ougi Takeshi-san, am I right?
[13:01] Boss
You in the back.
[13:02] Boss
Both our groups are subgroups
of the Santou Group.
[13:05] Boss
You're the second in command
for the Inada Group.
[13:07] Boss
That is you, right?
[13:10] Oug
It's been too long.
[13:12] Oug
I apologize for barging in like this.
[13:15] Oug
I really do.
[13:17] Oug
But what is this?
[13:20] Boss
It seems you witnessed
something unsightly.
[13:23] Boss
We have to use force so rarely,
but this guy just doesn't listen.
[13:29] Boss
What a mess.
[13:31] Boss
You can see that the dice roll is even.
[13:34] Boss
But he keeps saying that it's odd.
[13:38] Boss
Of course, now that you're here,
[13:41] Boss
he'll probably say that he said it
was even from the very start.
[13:46] Yasu
That's a bald-faced lie.
[13:48] Yasu
Akagi is a true pariah.
[13:51] Yasu
An outcast.
[13:52] Yasu
He's a heretic who spits on society's rules.
[13:56] Yasu
But he wouldn't change his
mind in such a manner.
[13:59] Yasu
Even if his life depended on it.
[14:02] Yasu
He didn't bet odd.
[14:06] Yasu
He bet even.
[14:08] Yasu
And now, the Kurata Group is trying
to change this fact using force.
[14:13] Yasu
The Kurata Group won't
back down from this.
[14:15] Yasu
They simply can't.
[14:17] Yasu
But...
[14:19] Yasu
Akagi won't withdraw, either.
[14:21] Yasu
He's the type who sees it
through to the bitter end.
[14:26] Yasu
What should I do?
[14:27] Yasu
What can I do?
[14:29] Yasu
What we're facing is the
very essence of gambling.
[14:32] Yasu
A meaningless death.
[14:34] Yasu
Ridiculous!
[14:36] Yasu
There's no way I can let
an unparalleled talent
[14:38] Yasu
like Akagi get snuffed out in a
pathetic gambling hole like this.
[14:41] Yasu
That's so stupid that
it simply can't happen!
[14:49] Boss
So, if you would be so kind as
to take your leave for today.
[15:03] Yasu
The roll is gone!
[15:04] Yasu
I just got rid of it!
[15:07] Yasu
There's no odd or even.
[15:09] Yasu
This thing you all put your pride
on the line for is gone now!
[15:13] Boss
You bastard, what do you
think you're doing?!
[15:15] Oug
Manager, please stop this.
[15:17] Boss
This isn't any of your business!
[15:19] Oug
That's not true.
[15:21] Oug
Yasuoka and I are like brothers.
[15:24] Oug
I can't just look the other way.
[15:26] Oug
When you lift a blade
against Yasuoka or Akagi,
[15:29] Oug
you lift that blade against me,
and therefore the Inada Group.
[15:34] Oug
That's how I'm forced to interpret this.
[15:36] Oug
Manager!
[15:37] Oug
Is there any way we can pretend
that this bet never even happened?
[15:42] Boss
Is this a joke?
[15:43] Oug
If you insist, then I will have no
choice but to report this up the chain.
[15:48] Oug
Is that your wish?
[15:53] Yasu
Akagi!
[15:54] Yasu
Akagi!
[15:55] Yasu
Hang on!
[15:57] Yasu
Akagi!
[15:58] Yasu
Akagi!
[16:11] Yasu
How did it go?
[16:15] Oug
Nothing to worry about.
[16:16] Oug
A wound like that isn't fatal.
[16:20] Oug
So long as you stop the bleeding, that is.
[16:28] Oug
That was close, though.
[16:29] Oug
If we hadn't arrived when we did,
he would've lost his life there.
[16:35] Oug
It's just like you said.
[16:36] Oug
He has absolutely no fear of death.
[16:38] Oug
He's someone who can look
death in the eye as it takes him,
[16:41] Oug
rather than being wracked by fear.
[16:45] Oug
That's a rare type of man right there.
[16:47] Oug
He really is an irreplaceable asset.
[16:49] Oug
I couldn't let him die there.
[16:52] Oug
Right, Yasuoka?
[16:54] Oug
An enormous amount of
money is riding on this.
[16:57] Oug
If he's going to die, he'll have
to do it at the table where
[16:59] Oug
that money's being wagered.
[17:03] Yasu
I'm glad it wasn't anything serious.
[17:05] Yasu
They said none of your
nerves were severed, either.
[17:08] Yasu
You better make this the last time you
[17:11] Yasu
try to throw away your life like that.
[17:15] Yasu
Is there any point in standing on
principle against scum like them?
[17:27] Aka
Sometimes, you just want to run
straight ahead, without reason.
[17:30] Aka
That was one of those times.
[17:33] Aka
My own blood didn't allow
me to bend my will.
[17:38] Aka
I would've rather died than give in.
[17:40] Aka
That was my true desire.
[17:42] Aka
The question is, what do you do
with the life saved in that way?
[17:46] Aka
Until you figure that out,
[17:48] Aka
your life was only prolonged
for the sake of prolonging it.
[17:51] Aka
It's better to just die
when your time comes.
[17:54] Aka
It makes no difference if the
other person is insane or not.
[17:57] Aka
If your time has come,
[18:00] Aka
you should just die.
[18:03] Oug
Wrong!
[18:07] Oug
Prolong your life, and you will
tread where nobody has tread before.
[18:12] Oug
If you keep thinking like that,
all you'll ever be is an outcast.
[18:15] Oug
A life that's decided by "talent"
alone is a third-rate way of life.
[18:20] Oug
Why don't you build on it?
[18:22] Oug
If you'd only build on
that talent of yours,
[18:25] Oug
the whole world could
be yours for the taking.
[18:27] Oug
You could control it all.
[18:29] Oug
All of it!
[18:33] Aka
I'm not interested.
[18:36] Oug
Don't say that.
[18:38] Oug
You've got a glow ordinary people
will never be able to achieve.
[18:42] Oug
You've got a certain light that they
[18:43] Oug
will never have, no matter
how much they wish for it.
[18:47] Oug
It's true that you've won until now
using nothing but your talents.
[18:51] Oug
But it also means you've been
blessed with easy opponents.
[18:56] Oug
In other words,
[18:58] Oug
you've only ever come up against
third and second rate players.
[19:01] Oug
No wonder you've
become bored with life.
[19:04] Oug
You couldn't stand this tepid
water you've been standing in.
[19:13] Oug
It's not a cold death you're
wishing for, deep down.
[19:18] Oug
What you want is a life so boiling hot
[19:21] Oug
that ordinary people couldn't
even bear to touch it.
[19:23] Oug
A scorching, scalding life.
[19:29] Oug
You need an opponent worthy of you.
[19:36] Oug
I know a person, Akagi.
[19:42] Aka
I should've seen that coming.
[19:45] Aka
You want me to play for you
in some high-stakes game.
[19:49] Aka
Me against this guy.
[19:53] Aka
This whole speech was
nothing but a preamble.
[20:00] Oug
Yasuoka, if you would...
[20:02] Yasu
Yes.
[20:05] Yasu
All the papers are talking about
these freaky serial murders.
[20:08] Yasu
The man behind them
will be your opponent.
[20:12] Yasu
You knew the man whose corpse
they found over in Tama.
[20:17] Yasu
This was him.
[20:20] Aka
That's...
[20:22] Yasu
Yes.
[20:23] Yasu
The fake who once assumed your name.
[20:26] Yasu
He was my ex-partner,
Hirayama Yukio.
SIGN Vampire Appears
[20:30] Yasu
As you know, he wasn't someone
who'd put his life on the line.
SIGN Mysterious Death
[20:33] Yasu
He was most likely forced into it.
[20:36] Yasu
This monster forced him to bet his
own life and then he killed him.
[20:41] Yasu
Do you get it, Akagi?
[20:43] Yasu
This time, it's not just about money.
[20:46] Yasu
You're going in to kill
a man-eating tiger.
[20:49] Yasu
It's a hunt.
[20:50] Yasu
Hunt him down, Akagi!
[20:52] Yasu
You're the only one who can
stop this monster's rampage!
[20:59] Nar
This is the prologue for a
new legend of Akagi Shigeru,
[21:02] Nar
the genius who descended
into the darkness.
[21:05] Nar
The bell that marks its beginning
has just been struck...
[22:16] Nar
Next time, "The Witching Hour."
SIGN Next Episode
SIGN The Witching Hour
15 - The Witching Hour
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[01:12] Nar
Hunting a monster.
[01:14] Nar
Akagi agreed to Ougi and
Yasuoka's outrageous proposal.
[01:20] Nar
His heart was moved by this mechanism
of a challenge that brings death.
[01:25] Nar
And he picked up a scent in the
monster that was similar to his own.
[01:31] Aka
He is bored.
[01:32] Aka
Just like me.
[01:39] Aka
He's tired of living.
[01:43] Aka
This man stands alone
and hopelessly bored
[01:47] Aka
at the summit of the
mountain they call success.
[01:52] Aka
His whole life was filled with success,
[01:55] Aka
but now it's past its expiration date.
[01:58] Aka
It can't intoxicate him anymore.
[02:01] Aka
You're like a giant serpent
being roasted alive.
[02:05] Old
I can't die yet.
[02:07] Old
There must be something else...
[02:10] Aka
Except there isn't.
[02:12] Aka
So just die already, you heretic.
[02:14] Aka
That is your only salvation.
[02:17] Aka
You and I will never be understood.
[02:20] Aka
We're just outcasts.
[02:23] Aka
We are of the same kind.
SIGN Episode 15
SIGN The Witching Hour
SIGN The Inada Group
[02:28] Nar
After Akagi got back to Tokyo,
[02:30] Nar
he stayed with the Inada Group,
where Ougi was the second in command.
[02:35] Nar
Akagi now waits for his moment
to approach the monster,
[02:39] Nar
for the negotiations to close.
[02:42] Nar
Akagi imagines the monster.
[02:45] Nar
What is that man's core?
[02:50] Nar
Washizu Iwao.
[02:54] Nar
Washizu graduated from the
Old Imperial University in 1912.
[02:57] Nar
He joined the investigative
bureau at the age of 22,
[02:59] Nar
what is called the police force today.
[03:02] Nar
He distinguished himself considerably
[03:04] Nar
with his brilliant intelligence and ambition.
[03:07] Nar
In 1932, at the age of 42,
[03:09] Nar
he became the superintendent
of a special police unit.
[03:12] Nar
And in 1940, at the age of 50,
[03:14] Nar
he rose to the position of what would
be the Chief Commissioner today.
[03:20] Nar
But in 1942 he suddenly retired.
[03:26] Nar
Washizu foresaw...
[03:29] Nar
the destruction of this country.
[03:32] Nar
Undoubtedly, he has the ability to
see one or two steps into the future;
[03:36] Nar
a remarkable sense of foresight.
SIGN Kyousei Consulting
[03:39] nar
After the war,
Washizu started a consulting firm.
[03:44] nar
He possessed knowledge of
[03:46] nar
many a politician's scandals
from his time in the police,
[03:49] nar
and he used it to obtain
information from them.
[03:53] nar
This meant he knew what
places would be developed,
[03:56] nar
what laws would be lifted.
[04:00] nar
With this valuable information,
he was able to consult with many firms.
[04:07] nar
Of course, Washizu's advice
was always spot on.
[04:09] nar
Those firms grew rapidly,
[04:11] nar
and he continued to skim a
percentage of the profits.
[04:16] nar
He amassed a seemingly
infinite amount of money.
[04:19] nar
Money that continued to increase.
[04:21] nar
Money.
[04:23] nar
Next thing he knew, he was
standing all alone at the summit.
[04:27] nar
In his grip, he held the power of money
[04:29] nar
as well as the secrets of
politicians and business men.
[04:32] nar
Nobody was any longer in a position
to point a finger at him.
[04:36] nar
He was an absolute power
overwhelming all others.
[04:38] nar
The hidden king who rules the
country from the shadows.
[04:42] nar
But then, this undefeated man fell
victim to old age... and insanity.
[04:48] nar
The shrewd man who had overcome the
changing times by his own power
[04:53] nar
and had such control over himself
ended up destroying his own spirit.
[04:56] nar
Most likely through despair
so overwhelmingly deep,
[05:00] nar
the average person cannot
even hope to comprehend it.
[05:04] Was
Why can't I be satisfied?
[05:06] Was
Why must I die?
[05:09] Aka
Of course you'll die.
[05:11] Aka
Even the greatest kings die.
[05:13] Aka
Your mistake was closing
your eyes to that truth.
[05:18] Aka
I bet he hates people
just for being young.
[05:21] Was
What is this? What is this?
[05:24] Was
A piece of trash with no
intelligence or talent,
[05:27] Was
but he will outlive me.
[05:29] Was
I won't allow it.
[05:31] Was
I won't allow it.
[05:33] Was
I won't allow it!
[05:40] Nar
It's August, 1965.
[05:43] Nar
For the first time in his 75 years,
the monster Washizu Iwao was in trouble.
[05:49] Nar
His arrest was imminent.
[05:53] Nar
Witnesses testified to the meeting
of Fake Akagi and Washizu's underlings.
[05:58] Nar
Items found at the site of the
buried corpse matched items
[06:01] Nar
that had been used in Washizu's home.
[06:03] Nar
The tire tracks at the scene matched those
[06:05] Nar
of a car found at his mansion.
[06:08] Nar
There was nowhere left to run,
[06:10] Nar
but Washizu still escaped
the predicament cleverly.
[06:14] Nar
Using his vast fortune,
[06:17] Nar
he bribed high-ranking politicians
and members of the police.
[06:21] Nar
He also blackmailed them by threatening
[06:23] Nar
to expose their scandals to the public.
[06:27] Nar
Mixing these soft and hard methods,
he slowly turned the situation around.
[06:31] Nar
He got away.
[06:36] Was
It looks like the last local cop who was
still against me gave in to the bribe.
[06:41] Was
You can all rest assured.
[06:44] Was
I made it fit.
[06:46] Guy
Congratulations, sir.
[06:49] Was
Of course.
[06:50] Was
This is the natural outcome.
[06:52] Was
Of course they would want
to cover up a murder
[06:55] Was
committed by a former police officer.
[06:57] Was
This is the natural outcome.
[06:59] Was
Though, those stubborn fools did
extort quite a sum out of me.
[07:04] Was
But it's all the same.
[07:07] Was
No matter how much I give them,
I can always get it back.
[07:11] Was
I know all of their secrets.
[07:15] Was
It's not a problem.
[07:17] Was
I won't fall.
[07:19] Was
I will never fall.
[07:22] Was
However, they say I have to
leave the country for a while.
[07:27] Was
I wouldn't normally excuse such
insolence committed against me
[07:30] Was
by the country I have
devoted my life to serving,
[07:32] Was
but it looks like the media is
close to uncovering something.
[07:36] Was
Yoshioka.
[07:37] Was
I have no choice.
[07:38] Was
Will you accompany me?
[07:40] Yoshi
Yes, of course, I will.
[07:42] Yoshi
Your entire fortune,
including the worth of this mansion,
[07:45] Yoshi
is ready to be liquefied at any
time and accompany you, as well.
[07:49] Yoshi
You could hide yourself for years.
[07:54] Was
Yoshioka.
[07:56] Was
How dare you suggest I "hide" myself?
[08:00] Was
Have you forgotten all I
have done for this country?
[08:04] Was
I laid the very foundations
for this nation!
[08:08] Was
Have you forgotten my contributions?
[08:15] Was
Compared to such
overwhelming contributions,
[08:18] Was
how can anything I do be a problem?!
[08:21] Was
It's no problem if I decide to
kill five or six useless punks.
[08:26] Was
They should allow me to do that.
[08:28] Was
Am I wrong, Yoshioka?
[08:30] Yoshi
It is as you say, sir.
[08:38] Was
I want you to contact Ougi.
[08:41] Was
It seems they have someone
who could play me.
[08:43] Yoshi
Sir, but it is precisely
that game that has—
[08:46] Was
Silence.
[08:47] Was
I only have a few more
days left in Japan.
[08:53] Was
Tonight is my last supper.
[08:56] Was
Stop your bellyaching.
[08:58] Was
The showdown will be tonight.
[09:00] Was
Call him right now.
[09:02] Was
Hurry up.
[09:03] Yoshi
Yes, sir!
[09:08] Nar
Akagi had stayed with the
Inada Group for two weeks.
[09:19] Oug
Akagi, we're going.
[09:23] Nar
The time to play against
Washizu Iwao had finally arrived.
[09:28] Nar
At 9 PM, three cars depart
for the Washizu mansion.
[09:32] Nar
Two of the cars hold armed
members of the Inada gang,
[09:36] Nar
who are going along to make sure
the terms of the game are upheld.
[09:39] Nar
Ougi, Yasuoka and Akagi
ride in the first car.
[09:44] Aka
Ougi-san.
[09:45] OUg
Yeah?
[09:47] Aka
There's a place I'd like to
stop at on the way.
[09:50] Oug
Where?
[09:56] Oug
A doctor?
[09:57] Yasu
Is his shoulder not healed yet?
[09:59] Guy
It seems it has not
completely healed yet, no.
[10:03] Aka
Thanks for waiting.
[10:06] Yasu
Is the wound on your shoulder okay?
[10:09] Aka
It's totally fine.
[10:12] Aka
I went for these.
[10:15] Yasu
Energy drinks?
[10:17] Aka
I just wanted something,
anything, to hydrate me.
[10:20] Aka
I'm not about to drink a single
drop of anything they offer us there.
[10:26] Oug
Sorry!
[10:28] Oug
We're the ones who should
have thought of that.
[10:32] Aka
They wouldn't think
twice about drugging us,
[10:35] Aka
seeing as we're trying to
take 500 million from them.
[10:38] Nar
500 million yen in 1965 would
be over five billion yen today.
[10:46] Aka
There's no such thing
as being too cautious.
[10:50] Nar
At 10 PM,
[10:51] Nar
Akagi steps inside at last.
[11:27] Was
So you're my opponent for the night.
[11:30] Aka
Yeah.
[11:32] Was
My, are you young!
[11:33] Was
But that's good.
[11:34] Was
That's good.
[11:35] Was
Youth is valuable.
[11:37] Was
It's perfectly proportional to the
huge sum I'm putting on the line.
[11:43] Was
Then, why don't we start...
[11:45] Was
this game of Washizu Mahjong right away?
[12:07] Was
I still haven't caught your name.
[12:09] Aka
Akagi.
[12:11] Was
Akagi-kun, is it?
[12:13] Was
Take a seat.
[12:17] Was
I'm sure they've briefed you already,
[12:20] Was
but before we start playing,
I need to explain a few things...
[12:23] Was
about the house rules of
this mansion's Mahjong.
[12:28] Was
In general, though, the rules
are the same as anywhere else.
[12:32] Was
What's different is the tools we use.
[12:36] Was
I'm fairly certain this is
the first time you've seen these.
[12:40] Yasu
So those are Washizu Mahjong tiles...
[12:43] Was
We will be using these transparent tiles,
which can be read even when facedown.
[12:49] Was
Three out of the four of each
kind of tile is transparent.
[12:52] Was
Only one of the four is a
regular tile with a back black.
[12:56] Was
As you'll find out,
[12:58] Was
you'll find yourself getting stuck often.
[13:00] Was
You won't be able to discard
because you can see almost everything.
[13:04] Was
Imagine if you were
walking along a path
[13:06] Was
and suddenly you were informed
it was actually a minefield.
[13:08] Was
You wouldn't be able to take a
single step further, am I right?
[13:11] Was
This is just like that.
[13:13] Was
These transparent tiles are a tool
to make those land mines visible.
[13:18] Was
It's an intriguing execution, am I right?
[13:20] Was
Awareness breeds fear.
[13:23] Was
People tremble only after
they have become aware.
[13:26] Was
And it is watching
people become aware
[13:29] Was
and start to tremble
that I find so amusing.
[13:36] Was
Now, as for the house rules.
[13:39] Was
More than rules,
they are adjustments to make
[13:42] Was
playing Mahjong with
transparent tiles possible.
[13:44] Was
There are three rules altogether.
[13:48] nar
The first is that no wall will be built.
[13:51] nar
It's no fun if you know the
next tile you will draw.
[13:55] nar
In Washizu Mahjong,
the tiles for the starting hand
[13:58] nar
and each draw are taken from the
hole in the middle of the table.
[14:01] nar
The second rule is that
[14:02] nar
draws are made with a leather glove,
[14:04] nar
so that the tiles can't
be read with the fingers.
[14:06] nar
The third rule regards
the indicators for dora,
[14:08] nar
reverse dora, and new dora from kan.
[14:12] nar
After everybody has their starting hand,
the dealer draws one more tile from the hole
[14:15] nar
to be the dora indicator for that hand.
[14:18] nar
The same method will be
applied for reverse dora
[14:20] nar
and kan dora as the need arises.
[14:24] nar
To avoid cheating, a machine
will shuffle all the tiles.
[14:28] nar
The machine will automatically
shuffle the tiles
[14:31] nar
when someone touches the
metal rim of the hole.
[14:34] Was
What do you think?
[14:35] Was
Pretty interesting, huh?
[14:37] Was
But the problem is still ahead.
[14:39] Was
Not even Ougi-kun knows about the
rule I am about to reveal to you.
[14:45] Was
There was a time when I used to
play Mahjong for hundreds of millions.
[14:50] Was
For a while I was quite enthralled,
but now it's no more than a distraction.
[14:55] Was
It's not enough for me anymore.
[14:57] Was
My tastes have gone elsewhere.
[15:00] Was
To make a long story short,
I'm wagering something else.
[15:03] Was
That is to say...
[15:04] Aka
I have a good idea what it is.
[15:06] Aka
You mean... the player's blood.
[15:11] Aka
You're telling me to bet my blood, right?
[15:17] Was
You got it!
[15:19] Was
You're a sharp one.
[15:21] Was
If you figured that out based on
these serial incidents of late,
[15:24] Was
this will be a quick explanation.
[15:26] Was
You are exactly right.
[15:27] Was
I am asking you to
bet your own blood.
[15:30] Was
If you lose, you die.
[15:35] Was
The human body has approximately
four to five liters of blood.
[15:40] Was
Judging by your size, I'd say
you have about 4.5 liters.
[15:44] Was
You wouldn't be betting
all of that amount.
[15:48] Was
Of course not.
[15:49] Was
You would die long before all
your blood has been drawn.
[15:54] Nar
It also depends on the speed with
which one loses blood, but death
[15:58] Nar
generally starts creeping
in once the body loses about
[16:01] Nar
a third of its blood supply.
[16:04] Nar
Usually the blood loss is
fatal before the 50% mark.
[16:09] was
You have about 2,000
CCs of blood to bet.
[16:12] was
That is the lethal amount for you.
[16:15] was
Were it to be drawn quickly,
[16:16] was
even 1,500 CCs would be
enough to kill you.
[16:20] was
But even if you didn't die,
your mind would be so muddled
[16:23] was
that you would be in no
condition to play Mahjong.
[16:27] was
Considering all that, we can say
that your limit is 1,500 CCs.
[16:32] was
But I will be aiming at the amount
that will, undoubtedly, kill you.
[16:37] was
There is no point in
merely weakening you.
[16:39] was
You will continue playing
to your last breath,
[16:43] was
even if it means croaking
right here on this table.
[16:47] was
You will not be allowed to withdraw
in the middle of the game.
[16:49] was
2,000 CCs are the price of your life.
[16:52] was
And that price is 20 million.
[16:57] Nar
20 million yen in 1965 would
be over 200 million yen today.
[17:02] Was
You can have enough fun for the
rest of your life with that money.
[17:05] Was
With some restraint, you will
never have to work again.
[17:09] Was
What do you say? Worth betting
your life, don't you think?
[17:13] Was
Now, how do we convert my money
and your blood into Mahjong points?
[17:20] Was
I'd say that 200,000 points
would be the appropriate amount.
[17:25] Was
If you lose 200,000 points
during six East-South matches,
[17:29] Was
you will lose 2,000 CCs of blood and die.
[17:32] Was
However, should you complete all six
with enough blood left to survive,
[17:38] Was
you will have more money than you could
ever earn through a lifetime of work.
[17:41] Was
But as for those 200,000 points
in six East-South matches...
[17:46] Was
This is a one-on-one battle
between you and me.
[17:50] Was
We are competing only against
each other for points.
[17:55] Was
Let's say I was in first place and had
30,000 points with the first place bonus.
SIGN Amount Won
[18:00] was
And you were in last
place with minus 20,000.
SIGN Amount Won Amount Lost
[18:03] was
Taking the ranking bonus into account,
[18:03] [SONG] Text
Rank bonus Rank bonus
[18:05] was
the difference between us
would be 110,000 points.
SIGN Points Points
SIGN Point Spread Points
[18:08] was
Which means that you would
lose 1,100 CCs of blood
[18:11] was
in just one East-South match.
[18:16] was
Were that to happen twice,
your 200,000 points,
[18:19] was
your 2,000 CCs of blood,
would vanish in a flash.
[18:23] was
Still, if you think about
the other side of that risk,
[18:26] was
it means that you have a high chance
of gaining a large amount of money.
[18:31] was
If you think positively,
it's a great arrangement.
[18:36] was
Six East-South matches,
200,000 points.
[18:39] was
A pure one-on-one battle.
[18:41] was
That's the root of Washizu Mahjong.
[18:45] was
The payments will be settled
after each East-South match.
[18:47] was
If you have more points,
[18:49] was
you can choose to take money
or regain some of your blood.
[18:51] was
Or, of course, you can do both.
[18:55] was
The winner gets to decide
how to split the winnings.
[18:58] was
And one more thing.
[19:00] was
In Washizu Mahjong,
there's something like a bonus.
[19:05] was
If there is a direct
hit on your opponent,
[19:08] was
or if you get a tsumo win,
along with the points,
[19:11] was
the equivalent amount of money or
blood will be transferred, as well.
[19:16] was
The winner decides what
form of payment it will be.
[19:21] was
I'm repeating myself,
[19:22] was
but this is a condition that
only applies to you and me.
[19:26] was
With this addition, it becomes more clear
that it's really a one-on-one contest.
[19:32] was
It's actually quite interesting
that money or blood
[19:36] was
is transferred during the East-South match.
[19:39] was
For example, if you
keep chasing my money
[19:41] was
and choose to not regain some of
the 1,100 CCs you lost earlier...
[19:46] was
...and you happen to deal
into a yakuman hand...
[19:51] was
...you will lose over 320 CCs
in the middle of the game.
[19:56] was
That means the game could be settled even
before the second East-South match is over.
[20:02] was
You could die.
[20:05] was
What do you think?
[20:06] was
I bet you won't be able to play carelessly.
[20:10] was
You'll start shaking.
[20:13] was
That's not just a figure of speech,
you will literally start shaking.
[20:16] was
With each tile, the deepest
core of your being
[20:21] was
will freeze and you'll really start shaking.
[20:26] was
That's what I want to see.
[20:28] was
That fear, that horror.
[20:32] was
I need to see it.
[20:34] was
I need to see it so badly!
[20:39] was
So badly that I've killed
so many men already!
[20:56] nar
The genius, Akagi, versus the
monster, Washizu Iwao.
[21:00] nar
The unprecedentedly gruesome game
of Mahjong is about to begin.
[22:16] nar
Next time,
"The Mahjong Game of Destruction."
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[01:12] Nar
The monster who ruled postwar
Japan from the shadows,
[01:15] Nar
Washizu Iwao.
[01:17] Nar
His limitless money.
[01:20] Nar
In his spacious downtown mansion,
a veritable symbol of his wealth,
[01:23] Nar
a deathmatch was about to begin.
SIGN Episode 16
SIGN The Mahjong Game of Destruction
[01:29] Nar
That fateful night,
[01:31] Nar
August 31, 1965, at 10:30 PM.
[01:36] Nar
The one to challenge the monster
is the genius called Akagi Shigeru.
[01:43] Was
That's what I want to see.
[01:45] Was
That fear, that horror.
[01:48] Was
So badly that I've killed
so many men already!
[01:52] Yasu
He's crazy.
[01:54] Yasu
It's in a different way from
Akagi, but he's also crazy.
[01:58] Yasu
His heart is no longer human.
[02:01] Yasu
He's a monster.
[02:03] Nar
Washizu will bet 20 million on this game.
[02:07] Nar
20 million in 1965 would be
more than 200 million today.
[02:14] Nar
Akagi will wager 2,000 CCs of blood,
[02:16] Nar
the loss of which is enough to kill him.
[02:18] Nar
2,000 CCs of blood translates
to 200,000 points.
[02:30] Was
Here is the apparatus that makes
our game tonight possible,
[02:34] Was
the tool that will draw
out Akagi-kun's blood.
[02:49] Was
You can just think of it
as a gigantic syringe.
[02:53] Was
The blood is withdrawn by reducing
pressure from the inside of the tubes.
[02:58] Was
Each of these holds exactly 250 CCs.
[03:02] Was
After the sixth tube, which would be
1,500 CCs, death will start to creep in.
[03:07] Was
And you'll probably expire before
we can fill the eighth tube.
[03:15] Was
These tubes represent the years of life
you will be investing in this game.
[03:21] Was
Simply put, if we say you'll die
[03:24] Was
somewhere between
the sixth and eighth tubes,
[03:27] Was
each tube is a decade of your life.
[03:30] Was
That is to say, you will be living
an entire life's worth of time
[03:34] Was
in the few hours that are to come.
[03:37] Was
You'll be stepping onto a path of
carnage from which there is no return.
[03:41] Was
Should you lose eight tubes
along the way, you die,
[03:44] Was
and no sympathy will be
spared for your state.
[03:47] Was
You may beg, you may scream,
but you will still die.
[03:50] Was
What do you say?
[03:54] Aka
Sounds good to me.
[03:57] Aka
The problem lies ahead.
[03:59] Was
Ahead?
[04:01] Aka
There is one thing I would like changed.
[04:04] Aka
That rate isn't enough.
[04:08] Aka
It can't destroy you.
[04:10] Was
What?
[04:11] Aka
The only way to destroy you is
to change the order of magnitude.
[04:15] Aka
I want the wager to be increased tenfold.
[04:24] Was
Ridiculous!
[04:25] Was
Stop talking nonsense!
[04:26] Was
You want me to wager 200 million
on the life of some worthless punk?
[04:31] nar
200 million in 1965 would
be over 2 billion today.
[04:38] Aka
No, that's out of the question.
[04:42] Aka
I know that even 20 million is way beyond
[04:44] Aka
the worth of a street punk like myself.
[04:47] Aka
My problem is that you are
diluting my life's value
[04:51] Aka
by equating it to 200,000 points.
[04:54] Aka
20 million yen shouldn't
be worth 200,000 points.
[04:58] Aka
Make it worth 20,000 points instead.
[05:03] Aka
Should I win 500,000 points, I could
take away 500 million from you.
[05:08] Nar
That would be five billion today.
[05:11] Aka
Then you're within reach.
[05:14] Aka
Your destruction will be within reach.
[05:18] Was
Are you stupid?
[05:19] Was
That is impossible!
[05:20] Was
How do you expect to survive six
East-South matches with only 20,000 points?
[05:24] Was
The ranking bonus alone
is 10,000 and 30,000!
[05:26] Was
If I'm ahead of you in a single match,
[05:29] Was
that alone will give me a rank bonus
of 20,000, and you'll be dead.
[05:32] Was
You'll have to place higher than
me in all six East-South matches!
[05:36] Was
And then there's that
bonus I talked about.
[05:39] Was
I can withdraw blood from you any time
[05:42] Was
I get a tsumo or a direct hit off of you!
[05:45] Was
If you deal into two of my mangan hands,
[05:47] Was
right then, that's 16,000
points. 1,600 CCs!
[05:50] Was
You'd be facing death in one fell swoop.
[05:52] Was
There's no way you could survive.
[05:59] Aka
It wouldn't be really impossible.
[06:01] Was
What?
[06:03] Aka
First off, if you don't set 20 million
to correspond to 20,000 points,
[06:10] Aka
there is no way that I can kill you.
[06:15] Was
What is wrong with him?
[06:17] Was
Who does he think he's talking to?
[06:19] Was
Ougi!
[06:20] Was
Explain to this piece of
trash exactly who I am,
[06:25] Was
and that this is no mere game!
[06:30] Oug
Washizu-sama, I apologize for
Akagi's rude way of speaking.
[06:36] Oug
However, the one who is
misunderstanding the nature
[06:40] Oug
of tonight's game is you.
[06:43] Was
Misunderstanding?
[06:46] Oug
Correct.
[06:47] Oug
We came here tonight for a genuine battle.
[06:52] Oug
This man here is different
from the sacrificial lambs
[06:56] Oug
we have brought you in the past.
[06:59] Oug
Akagi can overcome any disadvantage.
[07:03] Oug
That is to say, he could
potentially survive six
[07:06] Oug
East-South matches on
only 20,000 points.
[07:09] Oug
That's what we had in mind
when we prepared this...
[07:13] Oug
...assassin.
[07:20] Oug
He's the one who will kill you.
[07:23] Was
What?
[07:26] Was
Are you serious?
[07:28] Was
An assassin to kill me?
[07:31] Was
A genuine battle?
[07:34] Was
Who do you think you're talking to, Ougi?
[07:38] Was
You dare show such insolence to
the true ruler of this country?
[07:43] Was
To me, Washizu Iwao?!
[07:49] Was
I will crush you, Ougi.
[07:52] Oug
Forgive me, but I believe
that is no longer the case.
[07:57] Oug
Some time ago, you may
have said the same thing
[08:00] Oug
and it would have been
undoubtedly true.
[08:03] Oug
But it is far from true now.
[08:06] Oug
You've used up much of
your fortune to silence
[08:09] Oug
and bribe various politicians and members
[08:11] Oug
of the police force in this investigation.
[08:14] Oug
All you have left now is this mansion
and some amount of securities and bonds.
[08:20] Oug
According to our sources,
these assets value around 500 million.
[08:26] Oug
Considering what you were
once worth, it's peanuts.
[08:33] Oug
You only have enough left to
run away to another country.
[08:39] Oug
You're just a nouveau riche
fleeing the capital.
[08:42] Oug
You don't scare anyone anymore.
[08:46] Was
Ougi!
[08:47] Was
You bastard.
[08:48] Oug
We've taken off our obedient
sheep masks for tonight
[08:53] Oug
and we're here to take
your entire fortune.
[08:57] Oug
All of the 500 million that you have left.
[09:01] Oug
We ask that you bring that money here.
[09:04] Oug
We want you to wager the very last
of your fortune on this game.
[09:10] Oug
A human life should be
worth that much at least.
[09:15] Oug
If Akagi's destruction is
on the line for this game,
[09:19] Oug
you should have to do no less.
[09:22] Oug
We ask that you please accept
this tenfold increase.
[09:26] Oug
That you make the 20,000
points worth 20 million yen.
[09:30] Oug
The game in which Akagi will
either take your 500 million
[09:34] Oug
with 500,000 points,
[09:36] Oug
or you'll take his life with 20,000 points.
[09:45] Oug
It will be a game in which you
mutually bet your own demise.
[09:47] Was
That's insane!
[09:49] Was
You're asking me to
bet my entire fortune?
[09:51] Was
What about you?
[09:52] Was
Are you all talk?
[09:54] Was
I'm betting my entire fortune;
[09:56] Was
this kid is betting enough blood to die,
but you've got nothing to lose.
[10:01] Was
It's ridiculous.
[10:03] Was
I can't allow you to oversee this game
[10:05] Was
if you're nothing but empty words.
[10:09] Was
I simply can't allow it!
[10:24] Was
Your arm.
[10:25] Was
Bet your arm, Ougi!
[10:31] Yasu
Ougi...
[10:42] Was
The moment Akagi dies,
you lose one of your arms.
[10:48] Oug
That's fine.
[10:53] Was
You should know that in Washizu
Mahjong, death is defeat.
[10:58] Was
When that piece of trash dies,
[11:00] Was
any amount he has amassed
to that point is void.
[11:03] Was
If he dies, I will reclaim that money.
[11:05] Was
You won't receive a single yen.
[11:07] Was
What I'm saying is, if the kid dies,
you won't get any money.
[11:11] Was
All you'll get is one less arm.
[11:15] Was
Are you all right with that?
[11:18] Oug
That's fine.
[11:31] Was
Get it ready.
[11:32] Man
Sir?
[11:33] Was
The money.
[11:34] Was
The 500 million.
[11:37] Man
Washizu-sama.
[11:38] Man
Please remain calm.
[11:40] Was
What?!
[11:42] Man
Should you lose that money...
[11:44] Was
I won't!
[11:45] Was
He only has 20,000 points
for six East-South matches.
[11:49] Was
I need outrank him in only
one, and it's all over.
[11:52] Was
Paying the ranking bonus
alone will destroy him.
[11:55] Man
Washizu-sama...
[11:56] Was
There is no way I can lose!
[11:58] Was
There's not even the slightest
chance of me losing!
[12:00] Was
Am I wrong?
[12:01] Man
It is as you say.
[12:04] Man
It's unthinkable that you would lose
this wager under these conditions.
[12:10] Man
It is unthinkable... But even
knowing that, you need insurance.
[12:15] Was
Insurance?
[12:16] Man
Yes.
[12:18] Man
It was upon that bedrock
that your life was built.
[12:23] Was
Are you saying I should ignore all
the insults they have hurled at me?
[12:27] Man
No, but for safety's sake,
[12:30] Man
what if you were to reduce the game
from six East-South matches to two?
[12:36] Man
If you do that, no matter
how much you lose...
[12:38] Was
That's ridiculous!
[12:39] Was
Then they'll get away with
whatever they have at that point!
[12:41] Man
To prevent that, we could have a
rule where you alone can choose
[12:46] Man
to continue or stop the game
every two East-South matches.
[12:49] Man
How does that sound?
[12:51] Man
If at the end of two East-South matches,
[12:53] Man
you need only a tiny push to
kill him, you can keep going.
[12:57] Man
But if the game is not in your favor
[12:59] Man
and it is looking dangerous,
you can stop there.
[13:04] Man
There is nothing cowardly about this.
[13:06] Man
A battle of this magnitude requires
this bare minimum of insurance.
[13:10] Man
Besides, it was they who
made the ridiculous suggestion
[13:14] Man
to raise the wager tenfold.
[13:16] Man
It is only natural for you
to get this privilege.
[13:20] Man
I beg you to consider this.
[13:24] Nar
In the end, Washizu took this advice
and asked Ougi to accept these terms.
[13:31] Nar
Accepting Washizu's clause
to escape at any time
[13:34] Nar
is nothing but a demerit for Ougi's side.
[13:38] Oug
What should we do?
[13:46] Aka
No point asking.
[13:47] Aka
It's probably all the same.
[13:49] Oug
The same?
[13:51] Aka
It can stop at the second East-South match,
[13:52] Aka
or we can continue.
[13:54] Aka
Having the right decide that
[13:57] Aka
means nothing once the game starts.
[14:01] Aka
The last of his fortune is going to
start shifting hands in the millions.
[14:05] Aka
Once he gets started,
he won't be able to stop.
[14:09] Aka
He'll go as far as he can.
[14:13] Aka
It's a pointless rule.
[14:15] Aka
If anything it's the other way around.
[14:17] Yasu
The other way around?
[14:19] Aka
He tied his own noose.
[14:21] Aka
Washizu is digging his own
grave with this special rule.
[14:24] Aka
It's a foolish condition that kills
his own chance of winning.
[14:44] Nar
Akagi is betting his life blood,
[14:47] Nar
and Washizu is betting his
own brand of life blood,
[14:50] Nar
his last 500 million,
[14:55] Nar
worth over five billion today.
[15:00] Nar
Both parties have wagered
their own destruction
[15:02] Nar
in this deathmatch of insanity.
[15:08] Was
Then let's begin.
[15:15] Was
That's all you get.
[15:16] Was
Those points are your everything.
[15:18] Was
The 20,000 points that correspond
to your 2,000 CCs of blood.
[15:22] Was
And when you lose them, you die.
[15:30] Was
Why don't you roll the
dice to decide the dealer.
[15:36] Nar
No walls are built in Washizu Mahjong.
[15:39] Nar
The dice are used only to
determine who is dealer.
[15:42] Nar
Once the dealer is decided,
[15:44] Nar
each player will take turns
drawing two tiles from a hole,
[15:47] Nar
wearing leather gloves to prevent
feeling which tile is grabbed.
[15:50] Nar
These will be their starting hands.
[15:52] Nar
Once this is done, the dealer
will draw the dora indicator
[15:55] Nar
and place it in its slot.
[16:00] Nar
This is how Washizu Mahjong starts.
[16:04] Oug
What is the most effective
playing style in a game
[16:08] Oug
where everyone can see your tiles?
[16:12] Oug
I can't even begin to imagine it.
[16:14] Oug
But we've got to stay on the defensive.
[16:16] Oug
We've got to keep our defense
up all the way through.
[16:19] Nar
What Ougi is hoping for is
an impenetrable defense.
[16:23] Nar
A seal that will not allow a
single drop of water to leak.
[16:25] Oug
Without that, those 20,000 points
will be gone in the blink of an eye.
[16:30] Oug
It's not just direct hits that make him
lose blood, but tsumo wins, as well.
[16:36] Oug
His life blood...
[16:42] Was
I can't wait.
[16:44] Was
I really am excited to see how he plays.
[16:49] Was
He sure talked big.
[16:51] Was
He better play big, too.
[16:54] Was
Then again, an ordinary
player would barely survive
[17:00] Was
with 200,000 points, let alone 20,000.
[17:04] Was
Having only that many points is insane.
[17:07] Was
It's so crazy that it's
tantamount to suicide.
[17:13] Was
To have even a 1% chance to survive,
you'd have to be a genius.
[17:19] Was
And not just any ordinary genius.
[17:23] Was
He'll need intuition
beyond human understanding.
[17:26] Was
Perception that overwhelms all others.
[17:28] Was
A mastery that might as well
be in the divine realm.
[17:32] Was
He will also need to be insane.
[17:35] Was
He'll need to be devoid of all reason.
[17:38] Was
He'll need to be broken
as a human being.
[17:40] Was
No matter what happens,
he must show absolutely no fear.
[17:45] Was
So do you possess this madness, Akagi?
[17:51] Nar
On the seventh turn,
Washizu enters tenpai.
[17:55] Was
An auspicious start.
[17:57] Was
I'll get to test him early in the game.
[18:02] Was
Riichi.
[18:03] Yasu
There it is.
[18:04] Yasu
Washizu's preemptive riichi.
[18:06] Yasu
The riichi he absolutely cannot deal into!
[18:10] Nar
When playing with transparent tiles,
a riichi becomes much less terrifying.
[18:18] Oug
Being able to see this much
reduces the possible waits.
[18:20] Oug
A 1 or 4 of characters;
a 1, 4, or 7 of bamboo;
[18:23] Oug
or a 3 or 6 of bamboo.
[18:26] Nar
And on the same seventh turn...
[18:30] Nar
Akagi comes right back.
[18:32] Nar
If he discards the 4 of characters,
he'll be in tenpai with a 4/7 of circles wait.
[18:35] Oug
The 4 of characters
is one of the few tiles
[18:38] Oug
that Washizu may be waiting on.
[18:40] Oug
If you think about it,
[18:41] Oug
those discarded 2 and 3 of characters
[18:43] Oug
might be a trap to get
Akagi to discard the 4.
[18:46] Oug
The only thing to do here is to
quietly move the game along...
[18:56] Oug
Yes. That's the ticket.
[19:05] Nar
Akagi plays it safe.
[19:07] Nar
He discards the 5 and 6 of circles, keeping
the 4 of characters, and is back in tenpai.
[19:13] Yasu
Here it is.
[19:15] Nar
Yasuoka deals into his hand...
[19:17] Aka
Ron.
[19:19] Nar
...and he avoids Washizu's preemptive riichi.
[19:22] Aka
Pinfu, one dora. 2,000.
[19:25] Oug
Yes. That's good.
[19:27] Oug
This is the best way.
[19:28] Oug
Tighten your defenses and
slip through the cracks to win.
[19:31] Oug
This is the right way.
[19:36] Was
How boring.
[19:38] Was
You won't survive that way.
[19:40] Was
You'll die if you play like that.
[19:45] Was
Think about it.
[19:47] Was
If you had dealt that 4 of characters
[19:49] Was
instead of the 6 of circles,
and gone into tenpai,
[19:52] Was
I would've played into
your hand immediately.
[19:55] Was
With a mentanpin, ippatsu, and
one dora, you'd have had a mangan.
[19:59] Was
A haneman, if you got any reverse dora.
[20:02] Was
And you let it slip away.
[20:04] Was
You let that go in order to get a pathetic
2,000 points from your partner.
[20:08] Was
The worst kind of game.
[20:12] Oug
You're wrong.
[20:13] Oug
That worked fine for here.
[20:15] Oug
Nothing would have been better.
[20:16] Oug
It's easy for Washizu to talk after the fact.
[20:19] Oug
Don't let him get to you, Akagi.
[20:21] Oug
He's just trying to taunt you
so you'll go on the offensive.
[20:29] Aka
Maybe he's trying to taunt me,
[20:31] Aka
but what he's saying
is fundamentally true.
[20:38] Aka
It's not that simple, though.
[20:45] Aka
You'll realize it soon enough.
[20:54] Nar
And thus, Washizu Mahjong has begun.
[20:57] Nar
Who will be destroyed:
Akagi or Washizu?
[21:01] Nar
It's a path of carnage with no
possibility of turning back.
[21:04] Nar
The one-way battle has begun.
[22:16] txt
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[01:16] Nar
The monster of the
Showa Era, Washizu Iwao.
[01:20] Nar
He's amassed untold riches and power,
[01:23] Nar
and now he uses it to gamble on
young people's lives for his pleasure.
[01:28] Nar
In order to hunt down this monster,
[01:30] Nar
Akagi, the genius from the
darkness, stands up to him.
[01:33] Nar
Akagi will bet his very life's blood.
[01:37] Nar
Washizu will bet the
remainder of his fortune.
[01:40] Nar
The battle that may bring
either to ruin has begun.
SIGN Episode 17
SIGN The Proof of Genius
[01:52] Nar
Washizu's riichi misses its mark.
[01:55] Nar
Akagi takes the 1,000 points,
and the corresponding one million yen.
[02:07] Nar
East Hand 2.
[02:08] Nar
The dealer is Washizu.
[02:11] Nar
After losing the previous hand,
his opening hand isn't good.
[02:16] Nar
Compared to Washizu's bad starting
hand and bad draws, Akagi is doing well.
[02:21] Nar
In only the fourth turn...
[02:23] Yasu
Good.
[02:25] Yasu
One away from tenpai.
[02:27] Nar
It's not an impressive hand,
[02:28] Nar
but winning it would mean bumping
Washizu out of the dealer's spot.
[02:32] Nar
Then on the fifth turn...
[02:34] Nar
Yasuoka draws a red dragon.
[02:37] Yasu
If I make him call this red dragon,
[02:40] Yasu
Akagi will probably be in tenpai
with a 2 or 5 of bamboo wait.
[02:43] Yasu
In that case...
[02:45] Yasu
All right, Akagi.
[02:47] Yasu
Call it.
[02:50] Aka
Pon.
[02:53] Yasu
Good.
[02:57] Nar
This game is between
Akagi and Washizu alone.
[03:00] Nar
Since his own points don't matter,
[03:02] Nar
it makes sense that Yasuoka
would try to help Akagi.
[03:05] Nar
In this instance, he lets Akagi call
the red dragon to get him into tenpai.
[03:09] Nar
He then quickly deals into his hand.
[03:11] Aka
Ron.
[03:13] Aka
Red dragon, one dora. 2,000.
[03:20] Was
You trash...
[03:23] Was
You're not worth my time.
[03:25] Was
Even if you wanted me
out of the dealer's spot,
[03:29] Was
your hand was ideal because
all you had to do was wait
[03:32] Was
for Yasuoka to deal into it
with the red dragon.
[03:36] Was
And you took that for nothing
but a quick 2,000 win.
[03:41] Was
You're an idiotic coward.
[03:43] Was
Since you're so slow,
let me teach you a lesson...
[03:47] Was
on the most effective way
to play Washizu Mahjong.
[03:51] Was
The strongest weapon...
[03:54] Was
Riichi.
[03:59] Oug
This one's rough.
[04:01] Oug
He has so many black tiles.
[04:03] Oug
If he's going for a mentanpin,
[04:05] Oug
there are any number of possible waits.
[04:08] Oug
In an extreme case,
he could even have a chiitoitsu.
[04:17] Was
You moron.
[04:18] Was
You don't even have the
right to worry about it.
[04:23] Was
Hey.
[04:26] Was
Ron.
[04:28] Was
Riichi, ippatsu, tanyao.
[04:34] Was
And the reverse dora is...
[04:35] Was
I got one.
[04:37] Was
So it's a mangan.
[04:39] Was
Do you understand now?
[04:41] Was
The terror that is Washizu Mahjong?
[04:46] Nar
The riichi and the instant
deal of the winning tile is
[04:49] Nar
one of the most powerful ways
to team up in Washizu Mahjong.
[04:54] Nar
Even with the cheapest hand,
a riichi ippatsu is worth two han.
[04:58] Nar
If a reverse dora is added,
it instantly becomes a mangan.
[05:02] Was
I'm 100% certain you've got
no chance of winning
[05:06] Was
with that gutless playing style.
[05:08] Was
You may avoid direct hits from me,
[05:11] Was
but you can't keep me from outranking you.
[05:14] Was
Come on, boy.
[05:16] Was
Attack me, if you want to survive.
[05:20] Was
But if you're too scared,
just sit back and die.
[05:27] Was
Well, even if you decide to attack now,
[05:30] Was
that mangan put me
2,000 points ahead of you.
[05:36] Was
If you want to survive,
[05:38] Was
you have to attack, and attack,
and get ahead of me.
[05:41] Was
Discard the tile that will decide your fate.
[05:45] ---
Close the differential between us.
[05:48] Was
By making it through that carnage,
that danger, you will see
[05:54] Was
the faint light of your hope to survive.
[06:01] Nar
He is right. With this type of team play,
[06:03] Nar
it is impossible to stay ahead
[06:05] Nar
with defensive playing
or winning quick hands.
[06:09] Nar
That is to say, little tricks
are absolutely pointless.
[06:12] Nar
Since assisting each other is
allowed in this one-on-one battle,
[06:15] Nar
he will eventually lose.
[06:19] Nar
Declaring riichi and then having another
deal immediately into your hand
[06:23] Nar
is not only efficient,
[06:24] Nar
but one could say that it is standard.
[06:28] Nar
This strategy has no less
than three strong points.
[06:32] Nar
First, as demonstrated by Washizu,
[06:36] Nar
by adding 2 han with the
riichi ippatsu combo,
[06:39] Nar
one or two reverse dora will suffice
to make it an expensive mangan hand.
[06:43] Nar
The second is its speed.
[06:46] Nar
The time between a tenpai and
a win is completely eliminated.
[06:52] Nar
And so long as your teammate has
that tile, your wait can be anything.
[06:56] Nar
A side wait, a closed wait,
or even a single wait.
[07:01] Nar
All of them can lead to an ippatsu win.
[07:05] Nar
And most importantly,
that sense of safety.
[07:08] Nar
The moment you declare riichi,
the next player deals into your hand.
[07:12] Nar
In other words, you get the
benefits of declaring a riichi
[07:15] Nar
without the danger of having
to immediately discard anything
[07:18] Nar
that is not your own winning tile.
[07:20] Nar
Only the tile you discard when
declaring your riichi must pass.
[07:24] Nar
It's expensive, fast, and safe.
[07:27] Nar
In other words, the most effective strategy.
[07:32] Oug
He's got no choice now
but to join him in the ring.
[07:39] Oug
It has its dangers,
[07:43] Oug
but he has to play along with this duel.
[07:46] Oug
Akagi...
[07:51] Nar
Akagi is one tile from tenpai.
[07:56] Oug
The problem is what comes next.
[08:05] Oug
Is he in tenpai?
[08:07] Oug
If he's not declaring a riichi now,
[08:09] Oug
it probably means his
underling doesn't have
[08:11] Oug
his winning tile in his hand.
[08:14] Oug
He can always do it once his
underling draws the tile he needs.
[08:19] Oug
But if Akagi plays into his hand
before that, he'll get a direct hit.
[08:24] Oug
He'll just have to say "ron."
[08:26] Oug
It's a rock-solid strategy.
[08:29] Oug
He should just assume that Washizu
is in tenpai and play safely.
[08:33] Oug
From what I can see,
[08:35] Oug
it looks like the 4 and 7
of bamboo are dangerous.
[08:39] Nar
In this hand, the dora is the 6 of bamboo,
[08:41] Nar
so with Washizu's 6 of bamboo,
his wait is most likely for the 4 and 7,
[08:45] Nar
or the 5 and 8, of bamboo.
These are the danger tiles.
[08:49] Nar
He may also possibly be using
two 6 of bamboo as his pair.
[08:54] Nar
There is another danger area
around the 6 of circles,
[08:58] Nar
implying a 4 and 7, or 5 and 8 wait,
making those tiles very risky.
[09:06] Oug
He's in tenpai.
[09:08] Oug
Now he's got a 5 or 8 of characters wait.
[09:11] Oug
But of all things, he'll have
to discard the 7 of bamboo.
[09:15] Oug
That's the worst!
[09:18] Nar
It's an extremely risky tile, and
the exact tile he's waiting on.
[09:22] Oug
You've got to keep that tile, Akagi.
[09:31] Oug
That's crazy!
[09:33] Oug
That's the...
[09:39] Oug
Did you deal into his hand?
[09:41] Oug
Did you?
[09:54] Oug
It passed!
[09:59] Oug
Why could he deal such a risky tile?
[10:05] Oug
Did he somehow know that it was safe?
[10:09] Oug
That the 7 of bamboo would pass?
[10:18] Oug
The 5 and the 8 of bamboo passed, too.
[10:20] Oug
Which means he probably has
the two dora as the head
[10:25] Oug
and he's waiting on the 4 and 7
of circles, or 5 and 8 of circles.
[10:28] Oug
Since he knows what
Washizu's waiting on,
[10:31] Oug
he doesn't have to worry about
dealing into his hand anymore.
[10:34] Oug
He just has to avoid the risky
tiles, stay vigilant, and win.
[10:38] Oug
If he wins with the
5 and 8 of characters,
[10:40] Oug
Akagi will continue to be the dealer.
[10:43] Oug
He can catch up to Washizu.
[10:45] Oug
And if he draws it himself,
he can take the lead.
[10:47] Oug
He can bring the luck that's gone
to Washizu back to his side.
[10:56] Oug
He had to draw the 5
of circles, of all things.
[10:59] Oug
This is one of those last four risky tiles.
[11:03] Oug
He has no choice but
to hold on to this one.
[11:05] Oug
It's still only East Hand 4.
[11:08] Oug
He can't take that risk.
[11:09] Oug
It would be reckless to
discard that tile now.
[11:20] Oug
You're crazy!
[11:22] Oug
What the hell are you thinking?
[11:25] Oug
That's too much.
[11:30] Was
I see.
[11:31] Was
I guess you're not completely worthless.
[11:37] Was
Even if they notice the
second discard pile,
[11:40] Was
they usually don't get so bold...
[11:45] Was
Usually.
[11:49] Nar
At this point, Washizu is waiting
on the 4 and 7 of circles.
[11:55] Oug
The second discard pile?
[11:57] Oug
What's he talking about?
[12:07] Oug
I get it.
[12:08] Oug
That's what he's talking about.
[12:11] Nar
Why does Washizu not declare a
riichi despite being in tenpai?
[12:16] Nar
There could be only one reason:
[12:18] Nar
His underling doesn't
have his winning tile.
[12:21] Nar
Seen another way,
[12:23] Nar
all of Washizu's underling's tiles
become safe tiles, as well.
[12:27] Nar
It is a veritable "second discard pile."
[12:31] Oug
Why didn't I notice that sooner?
[12:36] Oug
Akagi used this to discard the
7 of bamboo and the 5 of circles.
[12:43] Oug
It's amazing that he could notice a detail
like that under this kind of pressure.
[12:46] Oug
That's Akagi for you.
[12:48] Oug
What is truly amazing,
though, is that he was able
[12:53] Oug
to bet his life on this observation.
[12:58] Nar
Washizu is also undoubtedly feeling
some admiration for this audacity.
[13:03] Nar
Because the second discard pile could
also potentially be used to lure Akagi
[13:08] Nar
into dealing the winning tile,
using the transparent tiles as bait.
[13:13] Nar
Yet, Akagi threw all those doubts away.
[13:19] Oug
That is exactly what makes him
[13:23] Oug
Akagi Shigeru.
[13:26] Oug
He can win.
[13:29] Oug
In this hand, he discarded two
tiles that should have been
[13:32] Oug
impossible to discard,
and maintained his tenpai.
[13:36] Oug
It might not be much, but he can
still win this hand before Washizu does.
[13:42] Oug
He can draw the winning tile.
[13:54] Was
Tanyao, tsumo, two dora. Mangan.
[13:59] Was
This is what Mahjong is about.
[14:02] Was
You can play a perfect game...
[14:03] Was
no, better than perfect...
[14:07] Was
and you'll still fall short.
[14:10] Was
You can give your very best and still die.
[14:14] Was
It's Mahjong where,
no matter how hard you fight,
[14:16] Was
you die when your time comes.
[14:19] Was
Is that not so, Akagi?
[14:25] Nar
The game is going in your favor.
[14:27] Nar
You thought you've made it.
[14:29] Nar
And yet your opponent draws the
winning tile, with maddening ease.
[14:33] Nar
It is not a question
of talent nor strategy.
[14:35] Nar
Once the opponent draws the
winning tile, it is over.
[14:39] Nar
Even Akagi is powerless to stop this.
[14:44] Nar
Akagi has 26,000 points.
[14:47] Nar
Washizu has 40,000.
[14:49] Nar
That's a difference of 14,000 points, and...
[14:52] Was
It's time to pay the bonus.
[14:58] Nar
Blood is drawn.
[15:05] Nar
Whenever Akagi and
Washizu exchange points,
[15:09] Nar
whether through a tsumo
or the obvious direct hit,
[15:12] Nar
it costs Washizu one million yen,
[15:16] Nar
and Akagi 100 CCs of blood
for every 1,000 points.
[15:23] Nar
This time it was 4,000 points,
[15:25] Nar
which means 400 CCs of blood.
[15:28] Nar
He must fill one 250 CC tube
and add 150 CCs to another.
[15:35] Was
Now we're starting.
[15:37] Was
The real game has just begun.
[15:40] Nar
That's right.
[15:41] Nar
This is Washizu's vampire Mahjong,
[15:44] Nar
demanding the very
blood of his opponents.
[15:47] Nar
That reality has been set into motion.
[15:52] Yasu
This is harsh.
[15:53] Yasu
This is too harsh.
[15:56] Yasu
If he gets three more tsumo like this,
that will already be 1,600 CCs.
[16:02] Yasu
He'll be barely conscious.
[16:03] Yasu
By the fifth withdrawal, he'll have
reached the fatal amount of 2,000 CCs.
[16:08] Yasu
He can't possibly keep this
up for six East-South matches.
[16:11] Yasu
There's no way.
[16:13] Nar
Yes.
[16:14] Nar
The gap between Akagi and
Washizu is 14,000 points.
[16:17] Nar
Herein lies the problem.
[16:20] Nar
Unless Akagi regains the lead,
[16:22] Nar
at the end of this hand,
he will have to pay
[16:24] Nar
the ranking bonus of 20,000 points,
[16:26] Nar
that is to say, to have
2,000 CCs of blood drawn.
[16:29] Nar
That is certain death.
[16:32] Oug
That'll be the death of him.
[16:36] nar
A dark and ominous cloud
hangs over the table.
[16:39] nar
The game moves into the South round.
[16:45] Was
It's laughable.
[16:47] Was
He wanted this reckless
rate of 2,000 CCs of blood
[16:50] Was
being worth 20,000 points,
and look at him now.
[16:54] Was
Trash.
[16:57] Was
Though, he did show a little aptitude.
[17:01] Was
I was impressed by his bold
utilization of the second discard pile.
[17:08] Was
But it was nothing more
than a little trick.
[17:12] Was
That's not the way to
grab hold of this game.
[17:15] Was
He's the one who chose 2,000
points over a mangan hand.
[17:22] Was
That was the moment you drove
the luck from your side.
[17:28] Was
You may be able to avoid
dealing into my hands,
[17:30] Was
but that's all you'll be able to do.
[17:33] Was
Once you've lost the favor of
Lady Luck, you can't get it back.
[17:37] Was
The good draws will
come to me first.
[17:41] Was
That's inevitable.
[17:44] Was
Dark demons live in
the world of Mahjong,
[17:49] Was
and what they appreciate is maturity
and elegance more than childish tricks.
[17:56] Was
That is to say, my style.
[18:06] Was
I'm already close to tenpai.
[18:10] Was
That's no fun.
[18:13] Nar
If he deals the 5 of characters,
he will be in tenpai.
[18:15] Nar
It would be a tanpin,
sanshoku, with one dora.
[18:18] Nar
If he declares riichi,
[18:20] Nar
his underling will be able to supply him
with the winning 2 of circles right away,
[18:25] Nar
netting him the ippatsu bonus
and giving him a haneman.
[18:27] Nar
If he gets even one reverse dora,
it increases to a baiman.
[18:30] Nar
It is the ideal shape.
[18:32] Was
This is pointless.
[18:34] Was
This win will end it all.
[18:38] Nar
Currently, there is a 14,000
point gap between them.
[18:40] Nar
With this win, that gap
would become 26,000 points,
[18:44] Nar
with the potential to rise to 30,000.
[18:47] Nar
Reversing the situation after
that would be impossible.
[18:52] Nar
Akagi's death would be certain.
[18:54] Was
So that's it?
[18:57] Was
That was no fun.
[19:00] Was
But I guess that's street
kid Mahjong for you.
[19:07] Was
Riichi.
[19:11] Aka
Nope.
[19:15] Aka
Tanyao, one dora. 2,600.
[19:19] Was
A single wait for the 5 of characters?
[19:21] Was
He took the 5 of characters
that would naturally come out
[19:23] Was
if I were to go for a sanshoku.
[19:27] Was
Was that on purpose?
[19:30] Was
Coincidence?
[19:32] Was
No, he planned it.
[19:36] Was
Just before, he discarded the 6 of circles,
[19:38] Was
which proves this 5 of characters
wait was no coincidence.
[19:41] Was
It was intentional.
[19:45] Nar
Had he kept the 6 of circles in his hand,
[19:48] Nar
his tenpai would have looked like this.
[19:51] Nar
He would have been had a 4-way
wait for 1, 4, 7 or 6 of circles.
[19:55] Nar
Yet he threw away that four-way
wait for this single 5 of characters wait.
[20:00] Was
I get it.
[20:06] oug
Th-Thanks.
[20:11] Was
Pretty good.
[20:13] Was
Any other kind of play would be boring.
[20:16] Was
It would have been horribly dull if you
[20:19] Was
hadn't shown at least this
little flash of talent.
[20:23] Was
Fight back.
[20:25] Was
Come back at me with
everything you've got.
[20:30] Was
Show me that very last
shred of resistance
[20:33] Was
when I've got you backed into the corner.
[20:36] Was
That, for me, is the ultimate pleasure!
[20:47] Nar
The genius from the
darkness, Akagi Shigeru.
[20:51] Nar
The monster of the
Showa Era, Washizu Iwao.
[20:54] Nar
Two monsters that live
in the world of shadows.
[20:57] Nar
Their deathmatch continues.
[21:00] Nar
Who will be the one to fall into
the pitch-black void of obliteration?
[22:16] Nar
Next time, "The Cursed Tiles."
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18 - The Cursed Tiles
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[01:12] nar
The genius from the
darkness, Akagi Shigeru,
[01:14] nar
and the monster of the
Showa Era, Washizu Iwao.
[01:17] nar
Akagi's wager is a fatal amount of blood.
[01:19] nar
Washizu's is the entirety
of his remaining fortune.
[01:21] nar
A deathmatch with the aim to
completely annihilate the opponent.
[01:25] nar
South Hand 1.
[01:27] nar
Akagi outsmarts Washizu and draws closer.
[01:33] Was
Pretty good.
[01:34] Was
Any other kind of play would be boring.
[01:37] Was
Come back at me with
everything you've got.
[01:42] Was
Show me that very last
shred of resistance
[01:45] Was
when I've got you backed into the corner.
[01:48] Was
That, for me, is the ultimate pleasure!
SIGN Episode 18
SIGN The Cursed Tiles
[02:00] nar
South Hand 2.
[02:02] nar
Washizu is the dealer.
[02:03] nar
Washizu currently has 37,400 points.
[02:07] nar
Akagi has 28,600 points.
[02:10] nar
The difference has shrunk to 8,800.
[02:15] was
You probably think you
got a good blow in,
[02:18] was
but that doesn't change the fact
that I'm still ahead of you.
[02:22] nar
That is correct.
[02:23] nar
It might have shrunk, but the
difference is still 8,800 points.
[02:26] nar
Unless Akagi can overturn
this difference before
[02:29] nar
this East-South match ends,
he will not survive.
[02:32] oug
If he loses by rank,
[02:34] oug
he'll lose over 2,000 CCs the
moment the East-South match ends.
[02:38] oug
Akagi will not survive.
[02:41] oug
He's in danger.
[02:42] oug
The fact that he's in an overwhelmingly
dangerous situation hasn't changed.
[02:46] aka
Pon.
[02:47] oug
And yet...
[02:51] oug
How can he be so calm?
[02:54] oug
He's on the verge of dying.
[02:55] oug
He'll die if he doesn't get back on top.
[02:57] oug
That's the situation he's in, and yet...
[03:00] nar
It goes without saying
that this South Hand 2
[03:03] nar
with Washizu as the dealer
is very important.
[03:05] nar
If he is able to safely
work his way to a win,
[03:08] nar
winning the entire East-South
match becomes a possibility.
[03:10] oug
But if Washizu is the one who wins,
Akagi's win from the
[03:14] oug
previous hand will essentially be void.
[03:17] oug
The difference will exceed 10,000 again,
and Washizu will still be the dealer.
[03:20] oug
That's something that needs
to be avoided at all costs.
[03:23] oug
He has to bump Washizu from his
dealer seat, no matter the cost.
[03:28] oug
I can't imagine that he wouldn't know
how crucial that will be for this match.
[03:33] oug
And yet...
[03:34] oug
How can he remain so calm?
[03:39] nar
It's almost as if his
indifference attracted it,
[03:43] nar
as Akagi draws the key to
his hand, the red dragon.
[03:47] nar
With the transparent tiles that
are used in Washizu Mahjong,
[03:51] nar
calling a red dragon from an
opponent is essentially impossible.
[03:54] nar
If he wanted to call it, he'd have
to call it from his partner, Yasuoka.
[03:57] nar
On the flip side, it's also extremely
hard to get rid of these tiles.
[04:01] oug
And he already got a triplet
of them this early in the game.
[04:05] nar
The wind was starting to pick up.
[04:08] nar
The tailwind that had faded
before had returned once more.
[04:13] oug
He's got two dora as his pair,
and is one away from tenpai.
[04:17] oug
But it looks like Washizu's
hand is quite fast, too.
[04:21] oug
And the underling to his right
is also getting ready to deal
[04:26] oug
into Washizu's hand right away.
[04:30] oug
Who will it be?
[04:31] oug
Who will be in tenpai first?
[04:33] oug
Akagi?
[04:35] oug
Or Washizu?
[04:39] oug
All right!
[04:40] oug
Akagi got there first.
[04:42] oug
He has a 5 or 8 of circles wait.
[04:45] nar
This is what Akagi's hand
looks like to Washizu.
[04:49] nar
It's almost certain that Akagi's waits
[04:51] nar
are for the 5, 8 of circles,
or 2, 5 of bamboo.
[04:54] oug
None of his opponents will
ever deal into his hand.
[04:56] oug
He can only count on his
own draws or Yasuoka.
[04:59] nar
However, Yasuoka does not have
either of those tiles in his hand.
[05:05] yas
Perfect!
[05:09] oug
There it is!
[05:11] nar
A priceless draw!
[05:12] nar
The tile that can bump
[05:14] nar
Washizu out of his dealer seat,
and give Akagi a mangan hand.
[05:17] nar
The 8 of circles is a
veritable deus ex machina!
[05:21] oug
What?!
[05:22] oug
Why doesn't he take it?
[05:24] oug
What are you thinking, Akagi?!
[05:28] nar
At this moment, Ougi is too
fixated on winning to see it.
[05:33] nar
The trap that is built into Akagi's hand...
[05:36] nar
The curse that Akagi's tiles cast
on Washizu, binding him in place.
[05:42] nar
That's right.
[05:43] nar
Akagi's wait can either be a 5,
8 of circles, or 2, 5 of bamboo.
[05:46] nar
That's what the tiles reveal.
[05:49] nar
If one of the options,
the 8 of circles, passes,
[05:52] nar
it becomes likely that Akagi's actually
waiting for the 2, 5 of bamboo.
[05:55] nar
It's almost certain.
[05:56] oug
I see.
[05:58] oug
This 2, 5 of bamboo wait is nothing
but an illusion for Washizu.
[06:03] nar
But this illusion actually binds him.
[06:07] nar
At this time, Washizu is also in tenpai.
[06:09] nar
If he can discard either
the 2 or 5 of bamboo,
[06:11] nar
his underling can deal
into his hand right away.
[06:13] nar
But he can't take the necessary step.
[06:18] nar
Those are not tiles he can discard.
[06:21] nar
He's forced to be defensive.
[06:24] oug
An absolute and decisive way
of slowing your opponent down
[06:26] oug
that's only possible with these glass tiles.
[06:29] oug
So Akagi didn't have to rush to win,
he still had time to spare.
[06:35] nar
Then, on the 10th turn...
[06:36] nar
His patience is rewarded.
[06:40] aka
Red dragon, west wind, two dora. Mangan.
[06:44] nar
He draws it himself.
[06:45] nar
The mangan causes the upset!
[06:48] nar
If he had taken Yasuoka's tile,
it wouldn't have caused an upset.
[06:51] nar
But if he draws it himself,
[06:52] nar
the 4,000 coming from Washizu
are enough to tip the scales.
[06:56] nar
Akagi is now the one on top
again, with a lead of 3,200.
[07:02] nar
He was able to draw the 8 of circles
himself by ignoring Yasuoka's.
[07:07] was
You bastard, you'll pay for that!
[07:14] oug
He can overcome it...
[07:15] oug
If he survives two more hands,
he can overcome this East-South match.
[07:19] oug
At that point, the rules say that
the intermediate payouts are done,
[07:23] oug
so he can get back the blood he lost.
[07:26] oug
The crazy rate of 20,000 points
for 2,000 CCs of blood...
[07:30] oug
It's not impossible for Akagi.
[07:32] oug
He just has to repeat this six times.
[07:37] oug
He might not take all of Washizu's
fortune, the entire 500 million,
[07:41] oug
but he might be able to take 200
[07:44] oug
or 300 million and leave
this mansion alive.
[07:47] oug
He can do it.
[07:48] oug
It would be impossible for others,
but you can do it, Akagi!
[07:54] nar
South Hand 3.
[07:56] nar
Washizu's underling, Suzuki, is the dealer.
[08:00] nar
The last two hands on
the edge of death begin,
[08:03] nar
both parties with daggers at their throats.
[08:07] was
I see, he's got some skill.
[08:11] was
He's not just some trash.
[08:15] was
He's not a common idiot who rushes
blindly to his own death, either.
[08:22] was
He might seem like one, but he isn't.
[08:24] was
This man is able to throw
away his own advantage.
[08:27] was
An ordinary daredevil isn't
capable of doing that.
[08:30] was
They might be able to ignore
disadvantages and rush in blindly,
[08:36] was
but they can't throw away tangible
advantages once they have them.
[08:38] was
Advantages are just that tempting.
[08:44] was
But this man can throw
away those advantages.
[08:47] was
Without any hesitation, too.
[08:50] was
Normal predictions won't work with him.
[08:54] was
He's obviously different
from the ordinary losers
[08:57] was
who acted all tough before I killed them.
[09:02] was
But sometimes,
even talent is meaningless.
[09:05] was
That's the essence of Mahjong.
[09:07] was
Die!
[09:11] was
This is interesting.
[09:13] was
I could take this to a multi-sided wait,
[09:17] was
but it looks like that 1 of circles
in Akagi's hand might come out.
[09:20] was
If he goes into tenpai,
he'll discard it.
[09:22] was
Until then, it'll be fun to do a
single wait on this 1 of circles.
[09:30] nar
Akagi is in tenpai.
[09:32] nar
By discarding the 1 of circles, he'll have a
multi-sided wait for 1, 4, 7 of characters.
[09:35] oug
What are you going to do?
[09:36] oug
If you can make the 1 of circles pass,
[09:38] oug
Yasuoka can immediately deal the
4 of characters into your hand.
[09:41] oug
But it's entirely possible that
Washizu is waiting for that very tile.
[09:46] oug
Of course, he could also have
the 1 of circles as his pair
[09:49] oug
and have a closed wait
for the 4 of circles,
[09:51] oug
or a double-sided wait
for 3, 6 of circles.
[09:53] oug
Alternatively, he could
also not be in tenpai yet.
[10:01] oug
Should he take his chances here and
discard the tile we all know is risky?
[10:07] oug
He went around it.
[10:08] oug
He's playing it safe.
[10:11] was
That's right.
[10:12] was
That's the kind of man you are.
[10:14] was
You will see through this kind of ruse.
[10:16] was
But don't forget...
[10:19] was
Even if you see what's going on,
still losing is what Mahjong is all about.
[10:24] was
Riichi!
[10:28] nar
Washizu changes his wait.
[10:30] nar
He drew the perfect tile,
the 6 of circles.
[10:32] nar
He now has the ideal multi-sided
wait for 2, 5, 8 or 3, 6 of circles.
[10:37] nar
As Akagi had to break up his hand
to avoid discarding the 1 of circles,
[10:40] nar
he's now one tile away from tenpai.
[10:44] was
Do you get it now?
[10:46] was
To have the right instincts and courage
[10:48] was
to play perfectly and still lose
is what Mahjong is all about.
[10:54] was
It's only natural.
[10:56] was
We're in completely
different leagues anyway.
[10:59] was
By using tricks, you were finally
able to approach my realm.
[11:04] was
But I don't need any of that to stop you...
[11:13] was
And win.
[11:16] was
I didn't get any reverse dora,
but it's a riichi,
[11:18] was
ippatsu, tsumo, south wind,
one dora hand. Mangan.
[11:21] was
Looks like I overtook you.
[11:24] was
Only one hand left.
[11:29] was
I've got you cornered, Akagi!
[11:36] nar
Because Washizu got a tsumo,
[11:38] nar
Akagi has to pay 2,000 points
and 200 CCs of blood.
[11:43] nar
In total, Akagi has lost
600 CCs of blood so far,
[11:46] nar
a third of the fatal amount.
[11:49] nar
After this upset,
there's only one hand left.
[11:52] nar
If Akagi doesn't win South Hand 4,
he'll lose the entire game.
[11:56] nar
If he loses by rank,
including the ranking bonus,
[11:58] nar
there'll be a difference of
over 50,000 points to Washizu.
[12:01] nar
That corresponds to 5,000 CCs of blood.
[12:04] nar
Instant death.
[12:07] nar
His life is literally riding on this one hand.
[12:10] oug
So far, Akagi made it this
far by managing to avoid
[12:14] oug
dealing into Washizu's hand.
[12:17] oug
The defensive play in East Hand 1.
[12:19] oug
The quick win in East Hand 2.
[12:21] oug
Waiting for the tile that
he knew would flow out
[12:23] oug
of Washizu's hand in South Hand 1.
[12:26] oug
Basically, he neatly
avoids traps and attacks
[12:29] oug
to score wins whenever
Washizu has an opening.
[12:33] nar
This is no ordinary game.
[12:36] nar
He is constantly aware of Washizu
and plays accordingly with restraint.
[12:40] nar
But occasionally, playing Mahjong like that
[12:42] nar
will distort the flow of the game.
[12:44] nar
Like rotten wood gathers in the
stagnant part of the river,
[12:50] nar
Akagi's hand only has tiles that
seem to have no coherence at all.
[12:54] nar
On the other hand,
Washizu gets an easy hand.
[12:58] nar
A starting hand with a clear direction.
[13:00] nar
Unconstrained draws.
[13:02] nar
It's not just a matter
of the point difference.
[13:05] nar
Akagi is suffering.
[13:07] nar
In this upstream battle,
Akagi is the dealer for the last hand.
[13:13] nar
This is Akagi's starting hand.
[13:15] oug
I can't say it's completely terrible...
[13:18] oug
but it's a pretty harsh starting hand.
[13:20] oug
Luckily, he has pairs of honor tiles
[13:22] oug
and Yasuoka has both the
east wind and the red dragon.
[13:26] oug
He could call them any time he wants.
[13:29] oug
So in reality, Akagi already
has half his hand complete.
[13:34] nar
But with only the east
wind and the red dragon,
[13:37] nar
he'd only get as far as
3,900 or 4,800 points.
[13:39] nar
It won't be enough to close
the gap of 6,800 to Washizu.
[13:42] oug
He'll have to get a direct
hit to cause an upset.
[13:45] oug
But I can't imagine
that Washizu would make
[13:49] oug
such a mistake in this last hand.
[13:51] ---
So then...
[13:52] oug
He has to go for a
honitsu or a toitoi hand.
[13:55] oug
Or draw a dora and incorporate
it into his hand somehow...
[14:00] oug
Either way, he can't afford
to drag his feet for long.
[14:04] oug
From what I can see,
Washizu's got a good hand.
[14:08] oug
He's probably two or three tiles from tenpai.
[14:11] oug
On top of that, his underling
has the 5 of characters
[14:13] oug
and 3 of circles that that will,
very likely, be Washizu's winning tiles.
[14:19] oug
How could he draw that tile?
[14:21] oug
Not only did he advance his hand with that,
[14:23] oug
he's also managed to turn the
[14:25] oug
problematic green dragons
into a triplet already!
[14:28] yas
Now it's sure that he's two
tiles away from tenpai.
[14:30] yas
It would be ideal for Akagi to get
one tile away from tenpai by himself
[14:33] yas
so I can give him the east
wind, red dragon combo...
[14:37] yas
But we don't have much time.
[14:39] yas
Right now, one extra turn could be fatal.
[14:43] yas
Akagi, call it!
[14:48] yas
You're going to wait?
[14:51] yas
We don't have any time to waste here!
[14:57] yas
He got another good tile.
[14:58] oug
One away from tenpai?
[15:01] nar
Fifth turn, Yasuoka.
[15:04] yas
Akagi has a pair of these.
[15:07] yas
Now I can give him three tiles.
[15:09] yas
Great!
[15:10] yas
We can't wait any longer!
[15:11] yas
Do it, Akagi! Call them!
[15:18] yas
Not yet?!
[15:20] yas
You want me to wait longer?!
[15:25] yas
Akagi, what are you...
[15:27] oug
What are you thinking?
[15:36] oug
How can you discard that?
[15:38] oug
Even if that's a dora, it'll be
completely isolated in your hand.
[15:45] nar
The next turn, Akagi...
[15:49] oug
Is this... a chiitoitsu?
[15:52] yas
Is he going for a chiitoitsu?
[15:55] nar
As the dealer, with the two dora,
Akagi would get 9,600 for his chiitoitsu.
[16:00] nar
Even if Yasuoka deals into his hand,
it would be enough to cause an upset.
[16:04] nar
Also, this is what his hand
looks like to Washizu.
[16:08] nar
He could easily assume Akagi's in tenpai.
[16:11] oug
If it goes well, this could
force Washizu to slow down.
[16:14] oug
But...
[16:17] was
You fool.
[16:18] was
Are you trying to tie me down?
[16:20] was
I guess you're trying to pretend
you're in tenpai with a chiitoitsu hand,
[16:24] was
but that's absolutely impossible.
[16:28] was
In order for that to be true, two
of the three black tiles you have
[16:32] was
must match the single 7 of
characters and 4 of bamboo.
[16:36] was
But that's already not possible.
[16:38] was
It's impossible... because I
already have a black 4 of bamboo.
[16:45] was
His chiitoitsu is one tile
away from tenpai, at best.
[16:51] was
You have no luck,
[16:52] was
no matter how much you struggle
or scream in this last hand.
[16:58] was
If I didn't know where the
black 4 of bamboo was,
[17:01] was
your fake chiitoitsu might have
been somewhat of a threat.
[17:06] was
Not only didn't it turn out that way,
[17:08] was
but your hand isn't progressing, either.
[17:10] was
That's obvious, though.
[17:12] was
If your hand was ready,
you'd have no reason to hesitate
[17:17] was
since your life's riding on this one hand.
[17:20] was
You'd take your partner's east wind and win
[17:22] was
with the red dragon he's got ready for you.
[17:25] was
With that one dora, you as
the dealer would get 5,800
[17:28] was
for that 30 fu, 3 han hand.
[17:31] was
You wouldn't cause an upset,
[17:33] was
but you'd survive to continue the game.
[17:35] was
If I win this hand, it's all over for you.
[17:38] was
You're at the end of the line.
[17:40] was
You can't be so naïve as to think that
[17:42] was
not being able to overtake
me is a good enough reason.
[17:45] was
Once I'm in tenpai, it's over!
[17:54] was
If you could have made your move,
you would have done so already!
[17:57] ---
Since you haven't...
[18:00] was
You're still not in tenpai,
even after calling
[18:02] was
the east wind, red dragon,
and 1 of characters?
[18:04] was
That just goes to show
how bad your hand is.
[18:07] was
No matter how you look at it,
I can get my last tile to tenpai faster.
[18:12] was
On top of that, I can
choose to go for either
[18:14] was
the 5 of characters wait or
the 3, 6 of circles wait.
[18:17] was
Suzuki will be able to deal
into my hand either way.
[18:21] was
Everything is taken care of.
[18:22] was
Akagi, you will lose.
[18:26] was
Your downfall was to think your little tricks
[18:29] was
would affect the flow of the game.
[18:32] was
You can't recover from that mistake now.
[18:37] was
Now you'll die.
[18:40] was
Suzuki also has the 5 of bamboo.
[18:42] was
That means he can deal into the
2, 5, 8 of bamboo wait, as well.
[18:47] was
Then I don't need this closed wait here.
[18:50] was
Now my hand is even stronger.
[18:52] was
The game is going in my favor!
[18:57] nar
This one move...
[18:59] nar
This was the only time in this last hand
[19:00] nar
where Washizu showed
any sign of relaxing.
[19:05] yas
So you're going to call now?
[19:12] aka
Pon.
[19:13] nar
The opportunity arrives.
[19:15] aka
Pon.
[19:17] aka
Pon.
[19:20] nar
Akagi rapidly calls three times.
[19:26] nar
He's one away from tenpai.
[19:27] nar
However, to Washizu,
his hand looks like this.
[19:32] oug
I get it!
[19:34] oug
This was Akagi's plan.
[19:36] oug
The reason he held back
[19:37] oug
on calling these three tiles
was to create this opportunity.
[19:40] oug
There are two reasons.
[19:42] oug
First, even if he couldn't get into tenpai,
[19:44] oug
he waited for his hand to
fill up with character tiles.
[19:47] oug
In other words, he waited until his hand
would look like he's in tenpai to Washizu.
[19:54] nar
And the other,
[19:56] nar
very important reason is
this 4 of characters.
[19:59] nar
If Akagi had called these three tiles
[20:01] nar
and hinted at a honitsu hand
before Washizu had discarded it,
[20:06] nar
Washizu simply would have kept his
4 and 6 of characters in his hand.
[20:10] nar
Already in good shape,
Washizu would not have slowed down.
[20:13] nar
But once he broke up the closed wait by
[20:15] nar
discarding the 4 of characters,
the situation completely changed.
[20:19] nar
Once the leftover 6 of characters is
a risky tile, things are not the same.
[20:24] oug
Only now can he actually
force Washizu to stop.
[20:28] oug
This is bad for him.
[20:29] oug
Now he has to wait for
something that lets him
[20:33] oug
incorporate that 6 of
characters into his hand.
[20:36] oug
This is precisely the reason
that Akagi laid low and waited.
[20:41] oug
He waited until Washizu
relaxed a tiny bit.
[20:44] oug
Perfect calls.
[20:47] oug
He put everything into this bluff.
[20:49] oug
Now we'll have to see if this
will actually work on Washizu.
[20:53] wash
You brat...
[20:57] nar
The last hand on the verge of death...
[20:59] nar
The deathmatch of destruction
continues down the dark tunnel,
[21:02] nar
and sets an even larger
wave into motion.
[22:16] nar
Next time,
"The Confusion of the Demon."
SIGN Next episode
SIGN The Confusion of the Demon
19 - The Confusion of the Demon
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[01:15] narr
The battle between Akagi and Washizu.
SIGN Episode 19
SIGN The Confusion of the Demon
[01:18] Nar
The first match is coming to an end.
[01:20] Nar
Forced into a disadvantageous situation,
[01:22] Nar
Akagi tries to regain ground
with his desperate bluff.
[01:39] Aka
Pon.
[01:41] Aka
Pon.
[01:43] Aka
Pon.
[01:49] Was
A honitsu?
[01:53] Was
Little punk...
[01:58] Oug
Akagi's desperate bluff at
the most crucial moment.
[02:03] Oug
Now we have to see if it
works on Washizu or not.
[02:10] Was
I see.
[02:12] Was
He was waiting for me to break up
my closed wait on the character tiles.
[02:15] Was
He called three times after I broke it,
[02:18] Was
making the 6 of characters
difficult to discard.
[02:21] Was
Don't think you've got me, though.
[02:24] Was
There's no doubt that the
luck's with me this hand.
[02:32] Was
The winner will be me.
[02:40] Was
I'm in tenpai?
[02:42] Was
If this 6 of characters passes,
[02:44] Was
I'll be in tenpai, with
a 2, 5, 8 of bamboo wait.
[02:47] Was
He has the 5 of bamboo,
so I could win right away.
[02:53] Was
If this 6 of characters passes, I win.
[02:57] Was
Discard the 6 of characters and win.
[03:01] Was
Normally, that configuration
after three calls
[03:04] Was
means that this 6 of
characters is his target.
[03:07] Was
I would never be able to
discard it, but here, I can.
[03:12] Was
Looking at it more broadly,
the game's flow is currently on my side.
[03:16] Was
Meaning the tile I must discard
[03:17] Was
to get into tenpai can't
be Akagi's winning tile.
[03:20] Was
His wait is probably...
[03:24] Was
a closed wait for the 8 of characters.
[03:27] Was
I will make it pass.
[03:29] Was
This 6 of characters will pass.
[03:49] Was
No, no. This is a bad habit of mine.
[03:52] Was
I always want to finish them off quickly.
[03:54] Was
But if I think about it, there's no
reason for me to do him this favor.
[03:58] Was
I know he's waiting on
the 8 of characters.
[04:00] Was
Or possibly, he's not in tenpai.
[04:02] Was
I don't think he will win
from this 6 of characters,
[04:05] Was
and yet it's not 100% safe, either.
[04:08] Was
Which means there's no reason
to push myself to discard it.
[04:12] Was
If I just take a moment
to think about it,
[04:14] Was
it doesn't matter if he is waiting
for the 8, or the 6 and 9 of characters.
[04:19] Was
There are very few of
those tiles left anyway.
[04:23] Was
For starters, Suzuki has a 6,
9 and three 8 of characters.
[04:28] Was
I also have a 6 of characters and
I've discarded a 9 of characters.
[04:33] Was
And he has two 6 of characters.
[04:37] Was
Regardless of which tile he is waiting
for, there's only one left of each.
[04:42] Was
Either the last 8 or 9 of characters.
[04:45] Was
That's it.
[04:46] Was
Which are grim chances.
[04:48] Was
There's no way he can
draw them himself.
[04:50] Was
So his tenpai is effectively dead.
[04:52] Was
Even if the danger is low,
[04:54] Was
there's no reason for me to
risk playing into his hand.
[04:58] Was
I can play around that tile
and keep the game going.
[05:10] Nar
If anything, Akagi's lack
of luck caused this.
[05:13] Nar
Whether it's for the 6,
or the 8 and 9 of characters,
[05:16] Nar
these waits are all almost dead.
[05:19] Nar
But that bad luck was actually fortunate.
[05:22] Nar
Akagi survived.
[05:24] Nar
He survived in order to survive.
[05:32] Was
What?
[05:34] Was
He switched out that tile
and discarded a west wind?
[05:37] Was
So he wasn't in tenpai?
[05:39] Was
Damn it...
[05:44] Nar
He is slowly recovering.
[05:47] Nar
The game was mostly going
in Washizu's favor,
[05:49] Nar
but slowly, some of that luck
is starting to return to Akagi.
[05:52] Nar
That was his aim from
the very beginning.
[05:55] Nar
If Washizu and Akagi had both
simply let their hands progress
[05:59] Nar
in this fourth hand, Washizu
would have most likely won first.
[06:02] Nar
Luck was not on Akagi's side.
[06:05] Nar
To win, Akagi had to force Washizu
to make a compromise somewhere.
[06:12] Was
What?
[06:15] Nar
The chance to win only comes after
Washizu has made that compromise.
[06:21] Was
What the hell is he doing?
[06:24] Was
There's no doubt that he's been
going for a honitsu up until now.
[06:28] Was
But since he discarded
the 6 of characters
[06:30] Was
and kept the 3 of circles,
that is no longer possible.
[06:33] Was
Which means...
[06:36] Was
a toitoi?
[06:38] Was
If that black tile is a 3 of circles,
[06:40] Was
he has a toitoi with east winds
and red dragons, for a mangan.
[06:44] Was
The cop has a 3 of circles, too.
[06:47] Was
It's over.
[06:49] Was
If he's in tenpai, the other will
play into his hand and it'll be over.
[07:05] Was
I guess he's not in tenpai.
[07:09] Was
Of course.
[07:10] Was
How could you be in tenpai?
[07:12] Was
You don't have the luck
to get a toitoi right now.
[07:17] Was
Luck is on my side this hand.
[07:20] Was
I'll be in tenpai before
you complete your toitoi.
[07:26] Was
That's right.
[07:27] Was
You can't get into tenpai that easily.
[07:29] Was
Did you think you'd get your hands
on the last 3 of circles that easily?
[07:34] Was
While you're wasting time,
I'll be making my comeback.
[07:38] Was
Yes, this will work.
[07:40] Was
Nice and easy.
[07:44] Was
Now I can have a three-way
wait on the bamboo tiles.
[07:47] Was
An ideal formation.
[07:49] Was
I'll keep these.
[07:51] Was
The question is, do I get rid of
the circles or the characters?
[07:55] Was
We're already on the 13th turn.
[07:56] Was
There aren't many draws left.
[08:00] Was
Then I should probably make
it a 5, 8 of characters wait
[08:03] Was
so Suzuki can deal
into my hand right away.
[08:05] Was
That's what I'll do.
[08:07] Was
I want to get rid of my circles...
[08:10] Was
Except...
[08:14] Was
He's an odd kid.
[08:16] Was
His game of Mahjong's basically
on the verge of death,
[08:19] Was
yet it seems to be closely following mine.
[08:22] Was
It's positioned in a way that
restricts my movements again.
[08:26] Was
He's most likely aiming for a toitoi,
[08:30] Was
but he could also have a
2, 5 or 1, 4 of circles wait.
[08:37] Was
Since he already has a 1
of circles in his discards,
[08:41] Was
he could have a closed
wait on the 4 of circles.
[08:44] Was
At any rate, he could also win with
just the east winds and red dragons.
[08:47] Was
For the dealer, a 40 fu,
2 han hand is worth 3,900.
[08:51] Was
It's not like he can take the lead
if that cop deals into his hand.
[08:55] Was
He couldn't, even if he drew it himself.
[09:00] Was
He'll just get to stay dealer,
but it won't overturn my 6,800 lead.
[09:08] Was
But not if I discard that tile.
[09:11] Was
If I deal into that 3,900 hand,
it would be enough to put him on top.
[09:16] Was
So then, discarding any circle
tiles would be reckless.
[09:21] Was
Wait.
[09:23] Was
Suzuki has a 5 of circles.
[09:26] Was
That means I can get Suzuki
to test it out for me.
[09:30] Was
If he discards it and it passes,
I can discard it, too.
[09:35] Was
He won't take over the lead
if Suzuki deals into his hand.
[09:40] Was
We'd start a new match and it
won't be much skin off my nose.
[09:45] Was
This is the best way.
[09:49] Nar
Washizu discards the 6 of circles
and sends his underling a sign.
[09:53] Nar
Suzuki gets the message
[09:58] Nar
and discards the highly
risky tile, the 5 of circles.
[10:02] Nar
But Akagi doesn't move.
[10:11] Was
It went through.
[10:12] Was
So that means he's got a closed
wait for the 4 of circles,
[10:15] Was
or is possibly not even in tenpai.
[10:18] Was
Either way, seeing that he
can't win off my 5 of circles,
[10:21] Was
it's the end of the road for him.
[10:24] Nar
He draws an 8 of bamboo.
[10:26] Nar
Once Washizu discards the 5 of
circles, he will be in tenpai.
[10:30] Was
I won!
[10:31] Was
I just have to discard this 5 of circles,
[10:33] Was
then Suzuki will deal the 5 of characters
into my hand and it will be over.
[10:36] Was
Victory.
[10:37] Was
There were some twists and
turns, but in the end,
[10:40] Was
this brat was also no match for me.
[10:44] Was
There is simply nobody
who can defeat me.
[10:49] Aka
Ron.
[10:50] Was
What?!
[10:57] Yasu
Akagi!
[10:58] Oug
You did it!
[10:59] Oug
You did it, Akagi!
[11:02] Aka
East wind, red dragon.
[11:03] Aka
A 40 fu, 2 han hand, as dealer.
[11:05] Aka
Old man, this 3,900 direct
hit puts me back on top.
[11:09] Aka
The first match is over.
[11:11] Was
It can't be!
[11:12] Was
How could he ignore Suzuki's 5 of circles?
[11:15] Was
Sure, getting it from me
would put him back on top,
[11:18] Was
but he didn't have the luxury of waiting!
[11:21] Was
It's not such a big deal that he figured out
[11:24] Was
that I'd discard the 5 of circles.
[11:26] Was
With this game's clear tiles,
[11:29] Was
making such predictions isn't that difficult.
[11:32] Was
He may have predicted the sequence of
[11:34] Was
Suzuki discarding the 5 of
circles after I discarded my 6
[11:36] Was
as paving the way for me to
discard the 5 of circles again,
[11:40] Was
and ignored Suzuki's 5
of circles based on that.
[11:46] Was
But that's something you could say
only under normal circumstances.
[11:52] Was
This is different.
[11:53] Was
If I had won this hand,
he would have died!
[11:57] Was
He would have lost his life!
[11:59] Was
That's not something you can just do.
[12:02] Was
Even if he suspected, no,
even if he was 99% certain
[12:04] Was
that Suzuki dealt the 5
of circles so that I could
[12:07] Was
safely discard it afterwards...
[12:09] Was
so long as that certainty isn't 100%,
[12:11] Was
so long as there remains even
a 1% feeling of uncertainty,
[12:15] Was
there's no way that he
could ignore the chance
[12:18] Was
to save his life with Suzuki's 5 of circles!
[12:22] Was
Does this kid not want to save himself?
[12:25] Was
Does he not want to keep living?
[12:28] Was
To see the next day?
[12:32] Was
You lunatic!
[12:39] Nar
The first match ended with Akagi's victory.
[12:42] Nar
Akagi receives the bonus payment
for the direct hit off Washizu,
[12:45] Nar
the 3.9 million yen.
[12:48] Nar
Now the regular payments will be settled.
[12:52] Nar
Akagi is in first place with 38,500.
[12:55] Nar
Washizu is in second place with 37,500.
SIGN | Hand | # | Akagi | Washizu
| Points | Points
SIGN East
SIGN First
Match
[12:59] nar
Akagi receives a 20,000 bonus
for being in first place,
SIGN South
[13:01] nar
and a 30,000 ranking bonus,
bringing him to a total of 88,500.
[13:06] table
Payment
[13:06] nar
Washizu only receives
the 10,000 ranking bonus
[13:08] nar
for being in second place,
[13:09] nar
bringing him to 47,500.
[13:12] nar
The difference between
the two is 41,000 points.
[13:15] nar
This is the base for the amount
of money Akagi can receive.
[13:18] nar
Were he to exchange it all for
money, it would be 41 million yen.
[13:22] nar
But that's not all.
[13:23] nar
With the direct hit bonus of 3.9 million,
[13:27] nar
the total in bonus payments
increases to 11.5 million yen.
[13:29] nar
Meaning Akagi has taken 52.5
million yen from Washizu
[13:33] nar
in this first East-South match.
[13:36] nar
That would be about
500 million yen today.
[13:41] Oug
He could win.
[13:43] Oug
I don't think someone else could do it,
[13:45] Oug
but with Akagi, I'm starting to
believe it's not impossible.
[13:49] Oug
He just needs to survive
six East-South matches.
[13:52] Oug
If he does that, he can strip
Washizu of his entire fortune.
[13:57] Nar
The money Akagi is entitled to
should correspond to 41,000 points.
[14:02] Nar
41 million yen.
[14:05] Nar
But Akagi has lost 600 CCs of blood
in this East-South match.
[14:10] Nar
So first, he must transfuse this blood
[14:13] Nar
back into his body before
the next match starts.
[14:18] Nar
If not, should Washizu get a
direct hit mangan off of him,
[14:22] Nar
it would cost him 8,000 points.
[14:23] Nar
800 CCs would be withdrawn.
[14:25] Nar
Combined with the current 600 CCs,
that would total 1,400 CCs.
[14:28] Nar
It might not be a lethal amount,
[14:30] Nar
but it would be enough
to muddle his thinking.
[14:33] Nar
Keeping that in mind, it is essential
that he get that blood back.
[14:38] Nar
Accordingly, Washizu deducts
600 CCs worth of money,
[14:42] Nar
6 million yen, from the 41 million,
[14:46] Nar
and hands Akagi the remaining 35 million.
[14:50] Nar
Ougi has no objections.
[14:53] Nar
However...
[14:54] Aka
That's not necessary.
[14:55] All
What?
[14:57] Aka
I want all my winnings in cash.
[14:59] Oug
Akagi!
[15:01] Yasu
Akagi, don't be ridiculous!
[15:03] Was
What?
[15:05] Oug
Akagi, come here!
[15:08] Oug
What are you thinking? You'll die!
[15:12] Oug
You'll die in a heartbeat if you
underestimate Washizu like that.
[15:18] Aka
A heartbeat from death
is the right place to be.
[15:21] Aka
If I were only a tiny push,
a tiny step away from death,
[15:27] Aka
that's the source of hope for Washizu.
[15:30] Aka
Ougi-san.
[15:32] Aka
We can't strip Washizu of his hope.
[15:35] Aka
Even as they get burned,
[15:38] Aka
as long as there is hope,
people will pursue it.
[15:46] Nar
In the end, Akagi enters the next match
without taking back a single drop of blood.
[15:53] Nar
He starts off with a 600 CC deficit.
[15:57] Nar
Naturally, this means that he is in
even more danger than in the first match.
[16:02] Nar
Should he get hit
directly with a mangan,
[16:04] Nar
it would mean losing
800 on top of the 600.
[16:07] Nar
After having 1,400 CCs of
blood taken from his body...
[16:12] Nar
He would be on the verge of death.
[16:18] Oug
It's unthinkable.
[16:20] Oug
To us it's unfathomable, but Akagi
himself decided to do it this way.
[16:26] Oug
That means it's probably necessary.
[16:28] Oug
This genius's instinct and sense
demand drastic measures.
[16:34] Oug
So that he may win.
[16:37] Oug
We can't understand his
sense or calculations.
[16:40] Oug
They're in another realm.
[16:43] Oug
All we can do is pray.
[16:46] Oug
All we can do is pray that this
act doesn't blow up in his face.
[16:50] Oug
Prayer is all we have.
[16:52] Oug
To pray that the unjust and irrational
nature of Mahjong won't show itself here.
[17:00] Oug
That's how dangerous this game is.
[17:04] Oug
Here, strength does not
always equal victory.
[17:06] Oug
Even the strongest are powerless
against the fierce wind of pure luck,
[17:10] Oug
and Akagi is no exception.
[17:13] Oug
All we can do is pray that luck
won't flow towards Washizu.
[17:18] Oug
If it's just moderate luck,
Akagi can make it through.
[17:22] Oug
He should be fine.
[17:23] Oug
So don't let Washizu get it!
[17:26] Oug
That kind of fierce and uncontrollable luck!
[17:29] Nar
Unfortunately, Ougi's fears
were half on the mark.
[17:39] Was
A preemptive strike.
[17:41] Was
Tsumo.
[17:42] Was
Tanyao, tsumo, two dora.
Mangan. 4,000; 2,000.
[17:49] Nar
From the very beginning of the
second hand, the luck is with Washizu.
[17:52] Nar
He draws his winning
tile for a mangan hand.
[17:54] Nar
He gains a 10,000 point lead.
[17:57] Nar
After that, he wins from
[18:00] Nar
his underling dealing into his hand.
[18:02] Nar
Then another tsumo win.
[18:05] Nar
The East round is one-sided.
[18:07] Nar
He has a 25,800 point lead on Akagi.
[18:11] Nar
Then there are the bonus payments
he receives from Akagi.
[18:14] Nar
The two tsumo wins add up to 500 CCs.
[18:18] Nar
Combined with the 600 CCs lost in the
first game, that is a total of 1,100 CCs.
[18:22] Nar
It is over half the lethal amount.
[18:29] Nar
Even if he can avoid direct hits, it's
useless if Washizu continues to be so lucky.
[18:35] Nar
He won't get around
having his blood drawn.
[18:39] Nar
Were he to deal into a mangan
hand, it would be 1,900 CCs.
[18:43] Nar
Certain death.
[18:45] Nar
It's a harsh situation.
[18:46] Nar
The East round is rough.
[18:49] Nar
As it is, Ougi's fears have
been completely realized.
[18:53] Nar
But the flow of the game changes
once they move into the South round.
[18:58] Nar
South Hand 1.
[19:00] Nar
Akagi unexpectedly gets
a tanpin, sanshoku hand.
[19:03] Nar
It's an ideal big hitter.
[19:06] Nar
He also has two dora.
[19:10] Nar
On top of that, many of his tiles are black,
[19:12] Nar
making his waits difficult to read.
[19:16] Nar
These black tiles prove
to be very effective.
[19:21] Aka
Ron.
[19:23] Aka
Tanpin, sanshoku, two dora.
[19:25] Aka
Haneman.
[19:29] Nar
In Washizu Mahjong,
it's rare to see a direct hit
[19:31] Nar
with a tanpin sanshoku hand.
[19:33] Was
Damn it.
[19:36] Nar
With this win, Akagi catches
up to Washizu in one move.
[19:40] Nar
Their gap has now narrowed
to 1,800 points.
[19:42] Nar
It is also the first direct
hit in this second match.
[19:47] Nar
He gets a chance to transfuse
some of his blood back.
[19:51] Nar
This is big, as well.
[19:53] Nar
With this 12,000 point win,
he is now able to regain
[19:58] Nar
all of the 1,100 CCs of
blood he's lost until now.
[20:02] Nar
He will be released from the fear
of dealing into a mangan hand
[20:08] Nar
and the instant death that would follow.
[20:12] Nar
Or so it seemed.
[20:14] Aka
I don't need it.
[20:20] Oug
Why, Akagi?!
[20:23] Oug
Why?
[20:24] Oug
No matter how you slice it,
you've got to get that blood back!
[20:27] Oug
Akagi!
[20:29] Aka
Money.
[20:31] Aka
I'm going to only grab
money here like a miser.
[20:36] Aka
Only then can I chase down Washizu.
[20:40] Aka
Only then can I...
[20:42] Aka
kill Washizu.
[20:52] Nar
Akagi attacks with little
regard for his own life.
[20:56] Nar
But will it be effective against Washizu?
[21:00] Nar
The second match of Washizu
Mahjong has only just begun.
[22:16] Nar
Next time, "Hope and Folly."
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[01:13] Nar
The second match of
Washizu Mahjong has begun.
[01:16] Nar
However, Akagi rejects a rare opportunity
[01:20] Nar
to regain some of the blood
he lost during the game.
[01:23] Nar
He has chosen to focus solely on
[01:26] Nar
taking the last of Washizu's
money, destroying him.
[01:33] Aka
I don't need it.
[01:39] Oug
Why, Akagi?!
[01:42] Oug
Why?
[01:44] Oug
No matter how you slice it,
you've got to get that blood back!
[01:46] Oug
Akagi!
[01:48] Aka
Money.
[01:50] Aka
I'm going to only grab
money here like a miser.
[01:55] Aka
Only then can I chase down Washizu.
[01:59] Aka
Only then can I...
[02:02] Aka
kill Washizu.
SIGN Episode 20
SIGN Hope and Folly
[02:07] Nar
In the end, Akagi enters the second
match without returning those
[02:11] Nar
1,100 CCs of blood into his body.
SIGN - South Hand 2 -
[02:19] oug
It's inconceivable.
[02:20] oug
Why won't you replenish your blood?
[02:24] oug
Why don't you return the blood you lost?
[02:27] oug
Why don't you try to get
out of this danger zone?
[02:31] oug
Why do you keep yourself in this position,
[02:34] oug
where you could die any time
you deal into a mangan hand?
[02:37] oug
Akagi!
[02:41] oug
I don't understand.
[02:43] oug
This is something that I can't understand.
[02:46] oug
But if I had to force myself
to imagine a reason...
[02:51] oug
I'd guess that by staying
in this danger zone,
[02:54] oug
Akagi has something to gain.
[02:57] oug
It's as if the danger itself is
honing something deep within him.
[03:04] oug
Is it a matter of that sort of
sense, that sort of sensitivity?
[03:09] oug
Or is it meant to rattle Washizu?
[03:13] oug
By continuing this reckless act...
[03:18] oug
he might be trying to instill
an indescribable fear into Washizu.
[03:23] oug
Is he trying to make him nervous,
to put him under pressure?
[03:29] oug
I don't know.
[03:30] oug
There's no way an ordinary guy
like me can understand
[03:33] oug
what someone like Akagi is thinking.
[03:36] oug
Perhaps my speculations are
completely off the mark.
[03:42] oug
But no matter what his reasons are,
[03:45] oug
his refusal of the transfusion is very risky.
[03:48] oug
It's the kind of act that could
result in death from one misstep.
[03:54] oug
To speak plainly, it's close to suicide.
[03:57] oug
What kind of a reckless, foolish,
idiotic strategy is this?
[04:01] oug
It's all over the moment
he deals into a mangan hand.
[04:09] Aka
Pinfu, tsumo, ittsuu, one dora. Mangan.
[04:13] Nar
But despite Ougi's concern,
the flow of the game favors Akagi.
[04:19] Nar
With this win, he overturns Washizu's lead.
[04:21] Nar
He leads by 12,000 points.
[04:23] Nar
This time, he takes 4,000
points from Washizu.
[04:26] Nar
Of course, he does not ask
for any of his blood back.
[04:28] Nar
On to South Hand 3.
[04:32] Nar
In South Hand 3, he sees that
Washizu is close to tenpai.
[04:39] yasu
Ron!
[04:46] Nar
Akagi plays into Yasuoka's hand
and kills Washizu's chance.
[04:50] Nar
He ends the hand quickly
to avoid danger.
[04:55] Nar
The last hand, South Hand 4.
[05:01] oug
He keeps making it through.
[05:04] oug
At one point, he was over
20,000 points behind.
[05:07] oug
When he finally caught up, he didn't
take any of his blood back.
[05:10] oug
That made me pretty nervous,
[05:12] oug
but I've come to realize
that luck's on his side.
[05:16] oug
Only one hand left.
[05:20] Nar
If he wins this hand, he will survive.
[05:23] Nar
The second match will end.
[05:25] Nar
Ougi puts his hopes on this last hand.
[05:31] Nar
This is Akagi's starting hand.
[05:34] oug
So-so.
[05:36] oug
It's not the best hand, but if he gets
some good draws, he could end it quickly.
[05:40] oug
The problem is Washizu.
[05:42] oug
He's 9,200 points behind right now.
[05:45] oug
The most frightening prospect
is him getting a mangan tsumo.
[05:49] oug
So long as that doesn't happen, we win.
[05:57] oug
Nice!
[05:58] oug
It looks bad for him.
[05:59] oug
We're almost there.
[06:02] oug
We can do this.
[06:03] oug
Akagi will most likely win!
[06:08] Nar
Seeing Washizu's starting
tiles makes Ougi relax.
[06:12] Nar
But Akagi is not so relaxed.
[06:15] Nar
Unlike Ougi, he felt the
exact opposite of Ougi.
[06:24] Nar
A premonition.
[06:30] Nar
This tile felt foreign in his hand...
[06:32] Aka
There's a lump I have
to cut out to win here.
[06:38] Nar
It's the last hand of the second
match in Washizu Mahjong.
[06:44] Nar
On the first discard,
Akagi uncharacteristically pauses.
[06:48] oug
What's going on?
[06:50] oug
There's nothing particularly
worrisome here.
[06:53] oug
You're 9,200 points ahead of Washizu.
[06:56] oug
So long as Washizu doesn't get
a mangan tsumo, it's all good.
[07:01] oug
Then we can end the
second match in the lead.
[07:05] oug
His victory would be certain.
[07:08] oug
And we're lucky; Washizu's
hand doesn't look so great.
[07:14] oug
He'll be lucky if he can win at all,
let alone get that hand into a mangan.
[07:20] oug
I get it. It's the dora!
[07:22] oug
The dora is the west wind.
[07:24] oug
And since Washizu is the west player,
it's worth more for him now!
[07:27] oug
If he calls that, he's
already guaranteed a mangan.
[07:31] oug
He's got a ticket for a mangan.
He's got a trump card for this game,
[07:35] oug
and he's got one in his starting hand.
[07:40] oug
No, it might be more than one.
[07:44] oug
If that black tile is also a west wind,
he'll already have a pair.
[07:48] oug
Which would make this west wind
in Akagi's hand a ticking bomb.
[07:56] oug
A single demon lurking in his own ranks...
[07:58] oug
Damn it, what are you going to do?
[08:00] oug
One false move with this west wind
and it will end up costing his life.
[08:06] oug
Does he have no choice but to keep it?
[08:09] oug
So long as Washizu doesn't give it up,
[08:12] oug
you could hold on to it
until the end of the game.
[08:14] oug
If you're lucky,
you might even get a pair.
[08:18] oug
If that doesn't happen, you would
be forced into a single west wind wait.
[08:23] oug
You have to be prepared for the possibility.
[08:26] oug
But holding on to it might
just be the safest bet.
[08:30] oug
If not, though, will you discard it now?
[08:33] oug
He's most likely thinking
about the same thing.
[08:37] oug
It'll be fine as long as Washizu
doesn't have two of them.
[08:40] oug
He has the one, but it's not
likely that he has another one.
[08:44] oug
Then it would be best to discard
it before Washizu gets a pair.
[08:49] oug
At least then he'd get away
from the curse of this west wind.
[08:54] oug
But should the opposite be true...
[08:57] oug
should Washizu already
have two west winds...
[09:00] oug
That would be the absolute worst move.
[09:03] oug
A folly that would allow Washizu
to call his own wind, and the dora.
[09:08] oug
It's like giving your enemy a
knife and saying "please kill me."
[09:12] oug
It would be an irreversible error.
[09:16] oug
What are you going to do?
[09:18] oug
What should you do?
[09:20] oug
What should you...
[09:24] oug
Akagi!
[09:32] Nar
Akagi's first discard is a 9 of bamboo.
[09:34] Nar
He did not discard the west wind.
[09:38] oug
He's going to wait and see?
Oh, that makes sense.
[09:40] oug
It's not too late to discard the west wind
[09:43] oug
after he's observed Washizu for a while.
[09:46] Nar
No sooner than Ougi thought this, the situation abruptly changes.
[09:53] Was
Chi!
[09:58] Nar
And then...
[10:01] Was
Pon!
[10:11] oug
This can't be...
[10:14] Nar
Within five seconds of Akagi
discarding that first tile,
[10:17] Nar
Washizu calls twice.
[10:19] Nar
His hand progresses rapidly.
[10:22] Nar
What's more, it's a potential green dragon
honitsu with two dora, a five han hand.
[10:27] Nar
It's entirely possible to take
the lead with a mangan tsumo.
[10:30] Nar
And that hand seems to be almost ready.
[10:33] oug
No! It can't be!
[10:35] oug
How is this possible?
[10:37] oug
I don't think he's in tenpai yet, but...
[10:41] oug
there's no way Akagi can
discard the west wind now.
[10:44] oug
If he does and Washizu calls it, he could
get a green dragon honitsu with three dora.
[10:49] oug
A haneman.
[10:50] oug
He's 9,200 points behind right now,
[10:54] oug
so he wouldn't even need
a tsumo with that haneman.
[10:56] oug
Having Suzuki deal into his hand
would be enough to take the lead.
[10:59] oug
He'll crumble...
[11:01] oug
Akagi will die!
[11:14] oug
D-Don't tell me...
[11:25] oug
Don't tell me...
[11:30] oug
I can't believe this.
[11:32] oug
From the starting hands, I was
sure we'd make an easy getaway.
[11:36] oug
It only took a few seconds for
Washizu to back him into a corner.
[11:41] oug
It's like he looked up and
death is right behind him.
[11:46] oug
Akagi!
[11:51] Nar
At this point, even Ougi realizes
that the abnormal is normal here.
[11:58] Nar
The special rule of Washizu Mahjong,
[12:00] Nar
betting one's life on a Mahjong
game, is already abnormal.
[12:07] Nar
Which means that in this abnormal world,
[12:10] Nar
it only makes sense to regard
the abnormal as normal.
[12:15] oug
Akagi has understood this from the start.
[12:19] oug
He knew that his life is at risk
in this game of Washizu Mahjong.
[12:24] oug
You'll be pushed to the very brink
and are forced to continue playing.
[12:28] oug
Being able to maintain your
concentration is your lifeline.
[12:34] oug
He also knew that thinking
you were safe from a mangan hand
[12:40] oug
just because you had your blood
transfused back into your body
[12:44] oug
was the wrong way of thinking.
[12:47] oug
He made his choice
based on the situation.
[12:50] oug
He knows that he must change his
game according to the situation.
[12:54] oug
Thinking "I'll be all right
even if he gets a mangan,
[12:56] oug
so I can discard this risky tile,"
[12:58] oug
is the normal way to think.
[13:00] oug
It's fine for a normal game,
but it's too weak for Washizu Mahjong.
[13:07] nar
That's a thought that
one must not give in to.
[13:10] nar
It ultimately means that one
[13:12] nar
doesn't really mind dealing
into their opponent's hand.
[13:16] nar
As a result, you stop trying to
read your opponents completely
[13:20] nar
and you will play the
odds on certain tiles.
[13:22] nar
You will start making half-hearted
guesses about the opponent's hand.
[13:26] nar
Both foresight and
determination deteriorate.
[13:29] nar
Playing Mahjong like that leads to
failure at the most crucial moment.
[13:34] nar
Impurities will start to filter
into the thought process.
[13:38] nar
That is to say...
[13:42] nar
...fear.
[13:45] oug
He can't let that creep into him.
[13:48] oug
It will make its way in if he
relaxes even for an instant.
[13:51] oug
He'll be devoured by fear.
[13:56] oug
I thought I had grasped that properly,
[14:00] oug
but compared to Akagi,
my comprehension lacked severely.
[14:04] oug
Had I understood it,
I never would've been so naïve
[14:08] oug
as to consider the blood transfusion.
[14:11] oug
The problem is, this hunger for
safety itself is like a cancer
[14:15] oug
that will eventually consume your mind.
[14:19] oug
Pursuing safety and
finding a temporary haven
[14:23] oug
will relax your mind for a while.
[14:25] oug
That's the way the mind works.
[14:27] oug
It cannot be helped.
[14:29] oug
But it's exactly that feeling
of relief that is bad.
[14:32] oug
In fact, since I was so
certain of Akagi's victory,
[14:37] oug
this predicament has me
all the more shaken.
[14:42] oug
An agitated mind cannot possibly
make cold calculations.
[14:47] oug
There is no way to keep calm
and take countermeasures.
[14:50] oug
You can't let your guard down,
not even for an instant.
[14:54] oug
Akagi understands that far
better than I ever could.
[15:00] oug
This is our salvation.
[15:01] oug
His unwavering composure is our salvation.
[15:04] oug
His utter tranquility despite
this situation is our salvation.
[15:08] oug
He's most likely not making any
shallow reads of Washizu's hand.
[15:13] oug
He's playing with a black or white mentality.
[15:17] oug
There are no ambiguities.
[15:23] oug
Wait a second.
[15:24] oug
Since Akagi didn't discard that west wind, and kept it in his hand...
[15:33] oug
That means he assumes Washizu
has not just one, but two west winds.
[15:43] oug
There's no doubt about it.
[15:45] oug
This is the genius Akagi's intuition.
[15:47] oug
His sense...
[15:50] oug
Damn it.
[15:51] oug
If he's right, we've got
the worst-case scenario.
[15:55] oug
On top of those two calls,
he's got two west winds.
[15:59] oug
He no longer needs to get
a tsumo to take the lead.
[16:03] oug
He's all clear for a haneman.
[16:05] oug
Which means...
[16:09] oug
annihilation!
[16:10] oug
Death is nigh!
[16:13] Nar
Unfortunately, Ougi's thoughts and
Akagi's intuition were right on the mark.
[16:21] Nar
They are reality.
[16:23] Nar
And with this latest draw,
Washizu's hand progresses yet again.
[16:31] Was
I've got you now.
[16:33] Was
One more step and I'll kill you.
[16:37] Was
You cocky little brat.
[16:41] Was
Tremble before me, Akagi.
[16:46] Nar
The situation is bleak indeed.
[16:48] Nar
Washizu no longer needs a tsumo
nor a direct hit to take the lead.
[16:51] Nar
He can cause an upset even if his
underling deals into his hand.
[16:56] Nar
But even if Akagi wanted
to attempt anything,
[16:58] Nar
his hand is far from tenpai.
[17:02] Nar
No.
[17:03] Nar
Even if he were to get great
draws and get into tenpai,
[17:08] Nar
he cannot discard this west wind.
[17:11] oug
So essentially, he can't get
into tenpai unless he goes
[17:14] oug
for a single wait for the west
wind or can complete the pair.
[17:19] Nar
Among all this...
[17:27] Was
Pon!
[17:29] Nar
Washizu moves forward by
calling this 1 of circles.
[17:33] Nar
He's called three times
without slowing down.
[17:36] Nar
And then, the circle tiles start to flow.
[17:40] Nar
A honitsu tenpai becomes
more and more likely.
[17:44] Nar
By now the possibility of the haneman
[17:46] Nar
that will cause the
upset is extremely real.
[17:52] oug
It's over.
[17:53] oug
There's nothing he can do.
[17:56] oug
It might even end before his next draw.
[18:01] oug
If Suzuki draws the west wind...
[18:13] oug
We've survived.
[18:14] oug
But it's still hopeless.
[18:17] oug
The gap is too wide.
[18:19] oug
If Akagi was at least in tenpai,
he might be able to
[18:21] oug
sneak through without
discarding the west wind.
[18:26] oug
But he's still two tiles from tenpai.
[18:34] oug
And he keeps drawing useless tiles.
[18:36] oug
He's still working on getting
rid of his honor tiles.
[18:40] oug
Maybe we have to rely
on Yasuoka here.
[18:44] oug
If he wins quickly, that could work, too.
[18:48] oug
So long as Akagi has that
west wind he can't discard,
[18:51] oug
Yasuoka is our only hope.
[18:56] nar
But Yasuoka is also not in tenpai.
He's two tiles away.
[19:03] OUg
Is there nothing we can do?
[19:05] OUg
Is praying all we can do?
[19:07] OUg
Pray that our enemy does
not draw the deciding tile?
[19:12] OUg
Aimlessly pray...
[19:17] OUg
Are we forced to sit idly by...
while praying that...
[19:23] OUg
he'll keep drawing useless tiles?
[19:25] OUg
And that while he keeps
drawing useless tiles,
[19:29] OUg
either Akagi or Yasuoka will
somehow get into tenpai?
[19:35] OUg
Or that Washizu can't get his winning
tile and have the game end in a draw...
[19:41] OUg
That we see the end of
this hand without Washizu
[19:45] OUg
getting a tsumo or Suzuki
dealing into his hand.
[19:48] OUg
That's all we can hope for!
[19:51] OUg
No.
[19:51] OUg
That's relying too much on the
others and it is way too unrealistic.
[19:57] OUg
When we consider that Washizu's
hand just needs someone to deal into it,
[20:03] OUg
we don't have the time
to say things like that.
[20:06] OUg
We need to get into tenpai.
[20:10] OUg
It's the only way.
[20:12] OUg
To get into tenpai before the
enemy draws the decisive tile.
[20:17] OUg
We have get into tenpai somehow.
[20:23] Nar
And yet, the one tile Ougi
wanted to be rid of,
[20:27] Nar
the tile he wanted his own
party to draw and kill off,
[20:31] Nar
the tile that will decide the
fate of Akagi and Washizu...
[20:36] Nar
is drawn by Suzuki.
[20:47] Oug
This can't be happening.
[20:50] Oug
The enemy... the enemy
got the west wind!
[20:55] Nar
Right then, they all foresaw
Akagi's impending death.
[21:01] Nar
They all foresaw it,
except for Akagi himself.
[22:16] Nar
Next time, "A Ray of Illusion."
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[01:13] Nar
The genius from the
darkness, Akagi Shigeru,
[01:15] Nar
versus Washizu Iwao, the
monster of the Showa Era.
[01:19] Nar
Akagi bets his blood;
Washizu wagers his entire fortune.
[01:24] Nar
The second match, South Hand 4.
[01:27] Nar
While Akagi leads by 9,200 points,
the fateful west wind that enables
[01:33] Nar
Washizu's haneman and an upset falls
in the hands of his underling, Suzuki.
[01:40] Nar
900 CCs stand between Akagi and death.
[01:43] Nar
The footsteps of destruction
draw closer and closer.
SIGN Episode 21
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[01:59] Oug
He'll die.
[02:01] Oug
One misstep and that dora
west wind will end it all.
[02:07] Oug
Akagi will be killed.
[02:11] Oug
Three of Washizu's tiles are black,
which means that there is
[02:15] Oug
no way he's got a double pon wait
for the west wind and some other tile.
[02:18] Nar
That's because only one of the four
of a particular tile is black.
[02:22] Oug
At least that risk is zero.
[02:25] Oug
But...
[02:27] Oug
With this setup, he could have
Suzuki discard the west wind.
[02:34] Was
Pon.
[02:36] Oug
Then switch to a naked wait and
have Suzuki deal into that, too.
[02:43] Oug
He'd have the green dragon, west wind
honitsu with three dora. A haneman.
[02:47] Oug
He'll take the lead.
[02:49] Oug
Or...
[02:53] Nar
Were he to be in a chanta tenpai...
[02:56] Nar
he could still have Suzuki
deal him the dora west wind
[02:58] Nar
and then deal him the 9 of
characters for his single wait.
[03:05] Nar
That would be a green dragon, west wind
chanta with three dora, a haneman.
[03:10] Nar
It would cause an upset.
[03:12] Oug
He'll die.
[03:15] Oug
If that's the state of the
enemy's hand, it's over.
[03:20] Oug
Akagi will be killed and I'll lose an arm.
[03:26] Oug
We'll lose all the money, too.
[03:27] Oug
We'll be bankrupt. On the retreat.
[03:33] Oug
If the dora west wind comes out now...
[03:51] Oug
If it comes out now...
[04:12] Oug
We're saved.
[04:15] Oug
The enemy's hand isn't quite there.
[04:19] Oug
It goes without saying
that he's in tenpai.
[04:22] Oug
But he can't win right away,
even if he calls the west wind.
[04:28] Oug
Which means we still have a chance.
[04:33] Oug
If he gets into tenpai now...
[04:36] Oug
If he...
[04:39] Nar
But Akagi's draw is useless.
[04:42] Oug
Damn, a north wind at a
critical time like this!
[04:45] Oug
What a lousy draw.
[04:47] Oug
I'm begging you!
[04:49] Oug
We can't waste a single second here!
[04:54] Oug
No!
[04:55] Oug
Why didn't you discard
the west wind, the dora?
[04:58] Oug
It's the shackle that's been
binding you this whole time!
[05:02] Oug
So isn't this precisely
the time to get rid of it?
[05:05] Oug
Since the enemy didn't call it this turn?
[05:08] Oug
If you wait a turn,
assuming that Washizu didn't have
[05:14] Oug
a honitsu already,
but looked like this instead...
[05:18] Nar
If he draws the 7 of bamboo,
[05:19] Nar
he can switch to a double pon wait
for the west wind and 7 of bamboo.
[05:24] Oug
Once that happens, he won't be able
to discard the west wind anymore.
[05:29] Oug
Were he to discard it,
[05:31] Oug
it would be a mangan direct hit with the
green dragon, west wind, three dora.
[05:34] Oug
He'd lose his lead.
[05:35] Oug
There's no way he could discard it then.
[05:38] Oug
If you think of that,
[05:40] Oug
wasn't this your only opportunity
to get rid of that damned west wind?
[05:47] Oug
So why didn't you?
[05:51] Oug
Wait.
[05:53] Oug
Is it possible that Akagi thinks
[05:55] Oug
Washizu is waiting to win
on a single west wind wait?
[05:59] Oug
Even if he's almost certain
that Washizu has a pair,
[06:02] Oug
he may think there's a slight chance
that he's got a single wait.
[06:07] Oug
Is that why he couldn't discard
[06:12] Oug
this dora west wind?
[06:16] Oug
There's a 9,200 point gap between them.
[06:18] Oug
Washizu can't make up that
difference from a tile dealt by Suzuki.
[06:23] Oug
But were Akagi to deal into his hand,
[06:24] Oug
it would be a green dragon
honitsu with two dora, a mangan.
[06:28] Oug
Does he think Washizu could be
waiting on a single west wind?
[06:32] Oug
Is that the illusion...
[06:35] Oug
the fear...
[06:37] Oug
that has him trembling?
[06:44] Oug
He got it.
[06:45] Oug
Now he can get in tenpai and have
a closed wait on the 2 of characters.
[06:48] Oug
He can get into tenpai!
[06:51] Oug
But to do that, he has to...
he has to discard the west wind!
[07:00] Oug
Akagi!
[07:02] Nar
If Washizu has a single
wait on a west wind,
[07:06] Nar
he'll have a green dragon honitsu
with two dora, a mangan.
[07:08] Nar
He would overturn Akagi's lead.
[07:12] Oug
This tile is the angel of death itself.
[07:15] Oug
A tile that leads to death.
[07:17] Oug
He can't discard it.
[07:20] Nar
But if Washizu
[07:21] Nar
already has two west winds and is
waiting for something else entirely,
[07:25] Nar
keeping the west wind in his hand will
cause a fatal stall in Akagi's game.
[07:30] Nar
Something he can't do.
[07:34] Oug
Washizu's tenpai is a sure thing and
Suzuki can give him the dora at any time.
[07:41] Oug
That's a haneman with the green dragon,
west wind honitsu and three dora.
[07:44] Oug
He can gift Washizu 12,000 points easily.
[07:47] Oug
Which means this last hand is
not the time to fool around.
[07:52] Oug
If he doesn't get into tenpai, it'll be fatal.
[07:57] Oug
He'll lose even that
faint chance he has now.
[08:02] Oug
So which is it?
[08:04] Oug
Do you see it as a single
wait, or as a pair?
[08:33] Was
I thought you'd try to make it pass here.
[08:38] Was
If it came down to that.
[08:45] Oug
It passed!
[08:46] Oug
Akagi's instinct won out.
[08:49] Oug
He finally made it to tenpai
by discarding that dora.
[08:55] Nar
Akagi has an iipeikou with a closed
wait for the 2 of characters.
[08:58] Oug
Now we just need Yasuoka to get
a 2 of characters and we'll win.
[09:12] Nar
Of course, Washizu is currently in tenpai.
[09:14] Nar
It just happened to be that
[09:16] Nar
the tile he was waiting for
was a 2 of characters.
[09:18] Nar
The same wait as Akagi's.
[09:45] nar
Washizu is in a closed wait for a 2
of characters, the same wait as Akagi.
[09:53] nar
Since the wait is for the
same 2 of characters,
[09:55] nar
it might seem like their chances
of winning are the same,
[09:59] nar
but that couldn't be
further from the truth.
[10:02] nar
Akagi can only win with
this 2 of characters,
[10:06] nar
but Washizu can also use the dora,
the west wind, to change his hand.
[10:11] nar
If you consider that his underling
can deal into his hand right away,
[10:14] nar
the number of Washizu's winning
tiles increases greatly.
[10:20] nar
For instance, if he draws the 1 of
characters and changes his wait to this
[10:24] nar
double pon wait, he can win by Suzuki
dealing the west wind into his hand.
[10:33] nar
Alternatively...
[10:34] nar
If Suzuki draws that 1 of characters,
[10:37] nar
he can just call the west wind and then
have Suzuki deal that into his hand.
[10:44] nar
That would be enough for
the haneman upset with
[10:47] nar
the green dragon, west wind
chanta, with three dora.
[10:49] nar
On top of that, if you stick with the
situation where Washizu calls the west wind,
[10:58] nar
then if Washizu draws any honor or circle tiles
[11:02] nar
near the ones in Suzuki's hand,
he can win from those, too.
[11:07] nar
Basically, once he draws one,
he can keep it in his hand
[11:11] nar
and discard a character tile.
[11:13] nar
Then he just has to call Suzuki's west wind
[11:17] nar
and have Suzuki deal into his single wait.
[11:24] nar
That will become the haneman
hand that will overtake Akagi.
[11:28] nar
Under the premise that
he calls the west wind,
[11:32] nar
Washizu has a total of nine
different tiles he can wait on.
[11:36] nar
On the other hand,
Akagi only has one.
[11:41] nar
Only this closed 2 of characters.
[11:44] nar
A huge gap!
[11:46] nar
Akagi is at a huge disadvantage.
[11:49] nar
Akagi knows that better than anybody else.
[11:53] nar
And then he gets a chance
to switch up his hand.
[11:59] oug
What will you do?
[12:02] nar
Will he stick with his closed
wait for the 2 of characters?
[12:05] nar
Or discard the 3 of characters to
get a 1, 4, 7 of characters wait?
[12:08] nar
Or discard the 1 of characters
to get a 3, 6 of characters wait?
[12:12] oug
I guess the safest bet would be
to discard the 3 of characters
[12:17] oug
and go for the more favorable
1, 4, 7 of characters wait.
[12:22] oug
In any case, he should just
stay in tenpai for now.
[12:25] oug
He can declare riichi after Yasuoka
has drawn the winning tile.
[12:30] oug
Declaring riichi without
having the goal in sight
[12:32] oug
would just be doing Washizu a favor.
[12:36] nar
If he loses the riichi wager,
SIGN Akagi 41900 points
SIGN Difference 9200 points
SIGN Washizu 32700 points
[12:38] nar
the difference between them
[12:40] nar
would shrink by 2,000 to just 7,200 points.
SIGN Difference 7200 points
SIGN Washizu 33700 points
SIGN Akagi 40900 points
[12:43] nar
That will remove the necessity for Washizu
[12:46] nar
to get 12,000 points to take the lead,
[12:48] nar
as the 8,000 from a mangan would suffice.
[12:51] oug
He can't do that.
That'll just hurt him too much.
[12:55] oug
So he has to be careful with the riichi.
[12:58] oug
Of course, waiting to declare
riichi until Yasuoka has the winning tile
[13:02] oug
will delay his win by one turn,
and that itself may be fatal, too.
[13:07] oug
But still, a riichi here can't happen.
[13:11] oug
It's unthinkable!
[13:30] nar
But Akagi...
[13:34] nar
contradicts Ougi's expectations completely,
[13:38] nar
and declares it!
[13:45] aka
Riichi.
[13:49] nar
And it's a 3, 6 of characters wait.
[13:55] oug
He went for the wait with the most
unlikely tiles, and he declared riichi?!
[14:00] oug
Why would he do that now?!
[14:08] oug
Could it be... a premonition?
[14:14] oug
Did he have a premonition
that Yasuoka will
[14:17] oug
draw his winning tile
in the next turn?
[14:21] oug
If that's the case, I suppose
I could understand it.
[14:25] oug
But is something like
that really possible?
[14:30] yasu
Akagi... Are you really telling
me that I'm going to draw it now?
[14:37] yasu
Is that what you're feeling right now?
[14:42] yasu
Is your instinct telling you
[14:45] yasu
that I'll draw it?
[14:51] oug
Did he get it?!
[14:52] oug
Did he?!
[15:19] was
What?
[15:21] was
Since he declared riichi,
[15:23] was
I thought the cop would deal
straight into his hand.
[15:25] was
But that is not the case.
[15:30] was
You've dug your own grave.
[15:33] was
You buckled under the pressure of
the match and fell in by yourself.
[15:40] was
I'm sure you must know what it means.
[15:44] was
The meaning of the 9,200
point difference between us.
[15:50] was
Until now, I needed a mangan tsumo,
or a haneman if I win off Suzuki,
[15:55] was
in order to take the lead.
[15:58] was
But once you declare riichi,
everything changes.
[16:02] Was
Now a tsumo on a 5,200
hand or a mangan hand
[16:05] Was
from a tile dealt by
Suzuki will be enough.
[16:08] Was
I can take your lead.
[16:16] Was
You should have never called
a riichi unless you were
[16:19] Was
absolutely certain your partner
could deal into your hand.
[16:25] Was
Did you crack from the pressure?
[16:28] Was
I can't say I don't understand that.
[16:31] Was
My advantage over you was just
too much, too overwhelming.
[16:35] Was
Maybe you thought I would end
the match in the next turn.
[16:40] Was
You thought that and decided
to make it all or nothing.
[16:47] Was
Making the cop your last ray of
hope, you declared your riichi.
[16:52] Was
You figured that if you
have to die anyway,
[16:56] Was
you'd die while running towards victory.
[17:03] Was
Like a prisoner about to make a break,
[17:06] Was
knowing he has practically no chance
to escape but trying it anyway...
[17:13] Was
You wanted to believe in miracles?
[17:23] Was
Reality is overwhelmingly cruel.
[17:27] Was
It's that tiny ray of hope
that seals your fate.
[17:34] Was
While I had the advantage,
only your riichi finally managed
[17:40] Was
to break the balance of power.
[17:44] Was
The final door has opened.
[17:46] Was
The angel of death has crept in!
[18:01] Was
Pon!
[18:04] Was
And now, I win!
[18:12] Oug
Oh, no!
[18:13] Oug
He'll play into his hand and it'll be over!
[18:17] Nar
A mangan with the green dragon,
west wind, and three dora.
[18:20] Oug
He'll die.
[18:27] Oug
He'll die!
[18:38] Was
Ron!
[18:48] Was
I win!
[18:49] Was
And now you'll die!
[18:55] Was
And still, you don't tremble?
[18:58] Was
But now you'll have your blood drawn
from you and you will most certainly die.
[19:02] Was
I wonder how long you can remain calm.
[19:21] Yasu
Th-The 3 of characters?
[19:24] Aka
Too bad.
[19:27] Aka
It's a head bump.
[19:38] Was
Wh-What?
[19:42] Aka
You were getting all worried,
so you tried to force an ending.
[19:47] Aka
If you hadn't done that,
you would have won.
[19:49] Aka
If you had restrained yourself,
[19:51] Aka
you would have won in
another three or four turns.
[19:53] Aka
What are you scared of?
[20:00] Aka
You're actually quite the
coward, Washizu Iwao.
[20:07] Was
This is impossible!
[20:08] Was
A 3, 6 of characters wait?
[20:10] Was
And you declared your riichi by
discarding the 1 of characters?!
[20:14] Nar
Akagi could have stayed with the
[20:16] Nar
closed wait for the 2 of
characters for an iipeikou.
[20:18] Nar
Or if he had to declare riichi,
he could have done it
[20:20] Nar
with a 1, 4, 7 of characters wait
for more possibilities to win.
[20:23] Nar
And yet he deliberately chose
the 3, 6 of characters wait.
[20:28] Was
He manipulated me?
[20:31] Was
He saw through my hand
and manipulated me?!
[20:41] Was
This bastard!
[20:45] Nar
The second match ends,
again with Akagi as the victor.
[20:49] Nar
But Washizu is the man once
known as the king of the shadows.
[20:53] Nar
There is no way he will back down now,
[20:56] Nar
from this battle where both
[20:57] Nar
Akagi and Washizu have
wagered their own demise.
[21:00] Nar
The night of darkness
gets deeper... and darker.
[22:16] Nar
Next time, "The Shackles of Artifice."
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22 - The Shackles of Artifice
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[01:13] Nar
The genius from the
darkness, Akagi Shigeru,
[01:15] Nar
versus Washizu Iwao,
the monster of the Showa Era.
[01:18] Nar
The first and second matches
of their battle to the death
[01:22] Nar
both ended in victory for Akagi.
[01:27] Aka
You're actually quite the
coward, Washizu Iwao.
SIGN Episode 22
SIGN The Shackles of Artifice
[01:37] Was
A 3, 6 of characters wait?
[01:40] Was
This is impossible!
[01:41] Was
And you declared your riichi by
discarding the 1 of characters?!
[01:45] Nar
Akagi could have stayed with the
[01:46] Nar
closed wait for the 2 of
characters for an iipeikou.
[01:49] Nar
Or if he had to declare riichi,
he could have done it
[01:51] Nar
with a 1, 4, 7 of characters wait
for more possibilities to win.
[01:54] Nar
And yet he deliberately chose
the 3, 6 of characters wait.
[02:00] Was
He manipulated me?
[02:02] Was
He saw through my hand
and manipulated me?!
[02:07] Was
Then you took my winning
3 of characters tile from Suzuki
[02:13] Was
using a head bump.
[02:15] Was
What is this?!
[02:18] Was
Why didn't I see it?
[02:20] Was
It was an obviously strange riichi!
[02:25] Nar
With Akagi's riichi, the
requirement for Washizu
[02:29] Nar
to take the lead had lowered
from a haneman to a mangan.
[02:34] Was
It was so obvious that he
had an ulterior motive!
[02:38] Was
Damn it!
[02:41] Nar
And with this, the second match is over.
[02:44] Nar
It seemed like a close
game, but in the end,
[02:48] Nar
Akagi is more than 10,000
points ahead of Washizu.
SIGN Washizu
32700 pts.
2nd place
rank bonus
Total
SIGN Akagi
43200 pts.
1st place
rank bonus
1st place
bonus
Total
[02:52] Nar
His game score now tops Washizu by 50 points.
[02:55] nar
Which means that on top of his
50 million yen in winnings,
[02:58] nar
Akagi will receive an additional
16 million in bonus payments.
[03:01] nar
Combined with his winnings from the
first match, that is 118.5 million yen.
[03:06] nar
It is an overwhelming amount.
[03:09] nar
In today's terms, that would
be around 1.2 billion yen.
[03:14] nar
And yet, Akagi once again refuses
to transfuse any of his blood back.
[03:18] nar
He waits for the next round
with 1,100 CCs of lost blood.
[03:23] nar
The next mangan he deals
into would kill him,
[03:26] nar
but he makes no attempt to
escape this dangerous situation.
[03:30] Yasu
Why not?
[03:32] Yasu
Why won't you get some
of your blood back?
[03:34] Yasu
This does nothing but hurt you,
without a single advantage.
[03:40] Aka
That's not entirely true.
[03:49] Aka
Take that last hand.
[03:51] Aka
Not returning any of my blood
is what led me to victory.
[03:55] yas
Led you... to it?
[03:56] Aka
Yeah.
[03:58] Aka
This last hand, my starting
tiles were horrible.
[04:01] Aka
That was because there was one tile
among them I could never discard,
[04:05] Aka
the dora west wind.
[04:08] Aka
Not only was it the dora,
it was also Washizu's wind.
[04:11] Aka
That one tile froze my entire hand.
[04:16] Aka
The possible wins were extremely limited.
[04:20] Aka
It wasn't something I could
solve on my own power.
[04:23] Aka
Therefore...
[04:26] Aka
To win...
[04:28] Aka
I needed Washizu to make a mistake.
[04:30] Oug
A mistake?
[04:32] Aka
The green dragon and the
8 of circles in the beginning.
[04:35] Aka
Those calls weren't a big problem,
[04:37] Aka
but after his 1 of circles
pon in the seventh turn,
[04:40] Aka
he discarded a 3 of circles,
an obvious mistake.
[04:43] Aka
Going for a chanta with such
a limited wait was not smart.
[04:47] Aka
He should've kept the 1 of circles pair
[04:49] Aka
and the 3 of circles to go for a honitsu.
[04:53] Aka
He had a much higher chance
of winning with that.
[04:56] Aka
There was no need to rush,
but he ended up rushing anyway.
[05:01] Aka
He prioritized getting into
tenpai over everything else.
[05:05] Aka
That was foolish.
[05:06] Aka
He was in a rush to win.
[05:10] Aka
What pressured him is my
refusal to transfuse blood.
[05:13] Yasu
What?
[05:15] Aka
If you had to name it, my insanity.
[05:18] Aka
My refusal to avoid death by
having any blood transfused back
[05:21] Aka
woke up a fear sleeping
deep within Washizu.
[05:27] Was
This man may be able to kill me.
[05:32] Aka
In my total disregard for my own life,
[05:35] Aka
he started to pick up the scent
of his own potential death.
[05:39] Aka
Of course, he probably
doesn't know it yet.
[05:45] Aka
This fear is still tiny.
[05:48] Aka
Right now, in manifests
more in the urge to rush,
[05:51] Aka
impatience, rather than in actual fear.
[05:55] Aka
Washizu's mental balance fell apart.
[05:57] Aka
As a result, he started rushing.
[06:02] Aka
And that was my chance.
[06:06] Aka
It was my opportunity to discard the
west wind I couldn't discard until then.
[06:10] Aka
With that tenpai...
[06:13] Nar
Akagi's hand started to progress.
[06:18] Nar
The ice was thawing.
[06:25] Aka
At the same time, his trump card,
the west wind, was also drained of power.
[06:28] Aka
If anything, my west wind gained power.
[06:31] Yasu
Power?
[06:32] Aka
After that, it clouded Washizu's eyes.
[06:36] Aka
It became an imaginary force.
[06:39] Yasu
An imaginary force?
[06:41] Oug
Now, wait a sec.
[06:42] Oug
You're talking about it like
that was your strategy,
[06:45] Oug
but there are a few things
that doesn't explain.
[06:49] Oug
For example, how could you
know at the very beginning
[06:52] Oug
of the game that you could
not discard the west wind?
[06:54] Oug
Yes, we saw that Washizu had
one of those tiles in his hand.
[06:59] Oug
We knew it was a dora.
[07:01] Oug
And that it was his wind.
[07:02] Oug
I can understand if you felt it
was a difficult tile to discard.
[07:05] Oug
If Washizu had a pair of west
winds and you discarded it,
[07:11] Oug
the moment he called it,
he'd have his wind and three dora.
[07:13] Oug
Already a guaranteed mangan.
[07:16] Oug
Of course you couldn't discard it then.
[07:18] Oug
But if you knew he only had one,
[07:20] Oug
you should've taken care of
it with your first discard.
[07:24] Oug
You talk about it like you
were already certain he had
[07:28] Oug
a pair of west winds,
from the very beginning.
[07:31] Oug
How can you know that before
he discards even a single tile?
[07:38] Aka
But he already had discarded many tiles.
[07:42] Yasu
What?
[07:44] Aka
I had two East-South matches worth
of tiles to see how he discards.
[07:48] Oug
B-But that's...
[07:51] Aka
You can really see the flow of the game
[07:54] Aka
and Washizu's own luck pretty clearly.
[07:58] Aka
Keeping in mind his own innate talent,
[08:02] Aka
I knew this last hand
wouldn't end without a fight.
[08:07] Aka
Sure enough, the dora he drew
happened to be his wind tile.
[08:10] Aka
And those dora west winds flowed toward
him as if they were drawn to him.
[08:16] Aka
I had one mixed up in
my own starting hand.
[08:20] Aka
All of these indicated that
it was no mere coincidence.
[08:23] Aka
You could say the dora west wind
[08:27] Aka
was a messenger sent from
heaven to help Washizu win.
[08:38] Aka
Had the game progressed normally...
[08:40] Oug
...Washizu would have won, you say?
[08:44] Aka
That dora west wind had the power to
kill me if I didn't handle it just right.
[08:49] Aka
It was an assassin and a venomous
demon at the same time.
[08:55] Aka
If I were recklessly brave
[08:57] Aka
and discarded it, he would call it.
[08:58] Aka
A guaranteed mangan.
[09:01] Aka
But if I'd kept it,
I wouldn't be able to move.
[09:05] Aka
It would lead to death.
[09:07] Aka
A damned if I do, damned if I don't tile.
[09:10] Aka
My only hope for escape was
a misstep from Washizu.
[09:16] Aka
Like what happened.
[09:18] Aka
Being in tenpai sounds great,
[09:21] Aka
but calling too many tiles
restricted his hand.
[09:25] Aka
I had no choice but to wait until
he couldn't move any further...
[09:30] Aka
and then to discard it.
[09:33] Aka
Just discarding it wasn't enough.
[09:34] Yasu
What?
[09:36] Aka
I needed to set up the
situation to discard it.
[09:40] Aka
If I screwed up the order, it was over.
[09:42] Oug
Wait.
[09:44] Oug
What you're saying is
that you knew from the
[09:48] Oug
very beginning that Washizu
had a pair of dora west winds.
[09:52] Aka
I did.
[09:53] Oug
Then isn't it strange that you
[09:55] Oug
discarded the north wind right after
you drew it on the 10th turn?
[10:00] Oug
During the ninth turn, Suzuki drew a
west wind, but Washizu didn't call it.
[10:06] Oug
Which means that would've been the
ideal time to get rid of that west wind.
[10:11] Oug
Washizu's next draw could have let him
[10:14] Oug
switch to a double pon wait for
the west wind and anything else.
[10:20] Oug
The only way I could rationalize you
not discarding the west wind at that point
[10:25] Oug
was that he might've be in a single wait
for the west wind with a mangan hand.
[10:30] Aka
Right.
[10:32] Aka
I wanted to create that illusion.
[10:35] Nar
That is the imaginary force.
[10:37] Aka
When I hesitated to discard the
west wind, Washizu thought...
[10:43] Was
He hasn't figured out my hand yet.
[10:45] Was
He thinks I'm waiting
on a single west wind.
[10:50] Aka
He guessed wrong.
[10:55] Oug
You purposefully acted
like you were hesitant.
[10:59] Aka
Those who see get to choose.
[11:04] Aka
You can reveal what you can see directly.
[11:07] Aka
You can pretend that you
can see even if you cannot.
[11:11] Aka
Or you can pretend to
not see even if you can.
[11:15] aka
Just by discarding a tile one turn later,
[11:19] aka
you can control the thought process
of your opponent almost freely.
[11:34] aka
Just by discarding a tile one turn later,
[11:37] aka
you can control the thought process
of your opponent almost freely.
[11:40] oug
I don't believe it.
[11:42] oug
He was manipulating us...
[11:44] oug
Both Washizu and even me, the spectator.
[11:47] nar
Akagi wasn't trembling at all.
[11:51] nar
He wasn't unable to
discard the west wind.
[11:54] nar
He explicitly chose to not discard it.
[11:56] oug
He's got his sights on
something totally different.
[11:58] oug
For us, it's all we can do just to deal
with with the efficacy of the tiles,
[12:02] oug
and the flow of the game.
[12:05] nar
But Akagi is trying to manipulate
the thought process of the opponent.
[12:09] nar
Even the idea to do that
is no longer normal.
[12:13] nar
It's outside the realm of ordinary men.
[12:16] oug
He's like a devil...
[12:19] yas
Akagi, can I just ask you one more thing?
[12:23] yas
Even if you had figured out the dora west
wind, what about the rest of his hand?
[12:29] yas
You sniped off the 3 of
characters for the head bump
[12:32] yas
that Suzuki tried to deal
into Washizu's hand.
[12:35] yas
You knew that he had a
single wait for the 3.
[12:38] yas
And since we're there already,
[12:40] yas
doesn't that also mean you knew
[12:41] yas
that he had a closed wait for
a 2 of characters before?
[12:47] yas
I mean...
[12:49] yas
I also figured that he couldn't
have a circles honitsu since Suzuki
[12:54] yas
didn't deal any of his many circle
tiles into Washizu's hand.
[12:58] yas
But how could you deduce
his wait from that?
[13:01] aka
Yasuoka-san, if you've come that far,
the answer is right in front of you.
[13:09] aka
This time, instead of trying
to read Washizu's hand,
[13:12] aka
you just need to take a good look at
Suzuki's hand to reveal Washizu's tiles.
[13:19] aka
This hand, Suzuki was
only focused on dealing
[13:22] aka
into Washizu's hand instead
of trying to win himself.
[13:27] aka
Then all you have to do is see
what Suzuki's hand looked like.
[13:34] aka
Over half of his tiles were
circle and honor tiles.
[13:37] aka
They were the building blocks Washizu
needed to complete his initial honitsu.
[13:43] aka
The rest were 1s and 9s for the chanta.
[13:48] aka
And since Washizu didn't call the
west wind when Suzuki drew it
[13:53] aka
to go for a win immediately,
these tiles were out.
[13:59] aka
Meaning the only remaining possibilities
were around the 1 of characters.
[14:03] yas
But with the chanta, couldn't it also
have been a 2, 3, 7, 8 of bamboo wait?
[14:09] aka
No.
[14:12] aka
He'd already discarded all the tiles around
the 4 and 6, so that would take away
[14:16] aka
his ability to win off them.
[14:18] aka
He wouldn't do that
after all those pon calls.
[14:25] aka
So his possible waits could be narrowed down
to side or closed waits for character tiles.
[14:31] aka
And since I had the black 2 of characters,
[14:36] aka
it meant Washizu was in a closed
wait for the 1 and 3 of characters.
[14:40] aka
Or from the other angle,
the reason Suzuki held on to
[14:45] aka
the seemingly pointless 3 of characters
was because Washizu had such a wait.
[14:51] aka
Remember that he needed a haneman
if he won off Suzuki's tile.
[14:55] aka
Even if he had,
[14:57] aka
green dragon, west wind, three dora
only adds up to a mangan.
[15:01] aka
Keeping this 3 of characters
had no real meaning,
[15:04] aka
but it was a tile that
Washizu had in his hand.
[15:07] aka
A tile that Washizu could
use for a single wait.
[15:11] aka
Considering that, if I were
to declare riichi, as I did,
[15:17] aka
a mangan would be
enough for the upset.
[15:20] aka
Or, a green dragon kan
could yield new dora
[15:23] aka
that could give him a haneman,
even with the 3 of characters.
[15:28] aka
That's why Suzuki kept it.
[15:31] aka
But in the end, that plan backfired.
[15:35] aka
Still, the most important part of this
[15:38] aka
was Washizu's state of mind.
[15:42] aka
The difficult part was
knowing if Washizu's emotions
[15:46] aka
would behave the way I wanted them
to when I declared my riichi.
[15:52] aka
It was difficult, but at this point,
I had no reason to doubt yet.
[15:57] aka
For him...
[16:00] aka
the temptation of victory was stronger.
[16:07] aka
The setup that guaranteed victory.
[16:10] aka
Its attraction was stronger...
because Washizu was starving for victory.
[16:16] Yasu
Starving?
[16:18] Aka
That's right.
[16:20] Aka
Washizu won his way through life.
[16:23] Aka
For him, victory was always certain.
[16:26] Aka
He knows well the difference
between victory and an advantage.
[16:30] Aka
It goes without saying...
[16:33] Aka
Advantage and victory are similar,
but also very different things.
[16:37] Aka
Put bluntly, having an advantage
has little meaning by itself.
[16:42] Aka
Whether for gain or self-benefit,
[16:46] Aka
all of that only becomes certain
after the actual victory.
[16:51] Aka
Successful people know this intimately.
[16:55] Aka
Which is why they try harder
to win than anyone else.
[16:58] Aka
Washizu is no different.
[17:04] man
Washizu-sama, what shall we do?
[17:06] man
Will you continue into the
third match, or will you stop?
[17:09] man
I believe that exercising
prudence is a viable option.
[17:13] man
Should you stop now, you will have
lost only a little over 100 million.
[17:19] Was
Are you mad?
[17:20] Was
You're telling me to run away?
[17:24] Was
You're telling me to
run and leave Japan?
[17:26] Men
Washizu-sama....
[17:28] Was
That cannot happen.
[17:34] Nar
The third match.
[17:36] Nar
Washizu has lost both the
first and second matches.
[17:39] Nar
He needs to win the third at any
cost and erase that disgrace.
[17:45] Nar
He can't keep losing.
[17:49] Nar
His pride as king...
[17:54] Nar
cannot allow him to let that happen.
[17:57] Nar
Washizu has already lost 118.5 million yen.
[18:03] Nar
At this rate, his entire fortune
of 500 million will melt away.
[18:08] Nar
His ruin seems near.
[18:13] Nar
It is rising...
[18:16] Nar
The raging water that will kill Washizu.
[18:19] Nar
It is slowly reaching a critical point.
[18:21] Nar
Still slight, but it has begun to overflow.
[18:23] Nar
It has started to wet Washizu's feet.
[18:28] Was
If I fall in, I die.
[18:33] Was
I must stop this.
[18:36] Nar
The third match has begun.
[18:39] Nar
Yasuoka is the first dealer.
[18:41] Nar
Washizu wants to reverse the flow
of the game during East Hand 1.
[18:46] Nar
He wants to escape this bad flow.
[18:50] Nar
But his hand is not so good.
[18:55] Nar
His draws are also sub-par.
[18:57] Nar
He is clearly going downhill.
[19:02] Nar
On the other hand,
Akagi is doing well.
[19:05] Nar
By the third turn, he's already one
away from tenpai, with three dora.
[19:11] Nar
But Akagi does not relax his game.
[19:14] Nar
No.
[19:16] Nar
Akagi never was in the position to
either relax or tighten his game.
[19:23] Nar
He has transcended that.
[19:26] Nar
If he hadn't, he could not have survived.
[19:28] Oug
Ranking below Washizu even
once would mean certain death.
[19:35] Oug
He is still missing 1,100 CCs of blood.
[19:39] Nar
That is to say, should he deal
into a single mangan hand
[19:42] Nar
of Washizu's, he would
lose 800 CCs of blood.
[19:45] Nar
Combined with the 1,100,
[19:46] Nar
that would amount to 1,900 CCs of blood,
[19:48] Nar
just one step away
from the fatal amount.
[19:53] Oug
He could die at any time.
[19:56] Oug
Of course he can't relax
under these conditions.
[20:02] nar
Always one step from death.
[20:05] nar
And then Washizu has a certain feeling.
[20:10] Was
I have a feeling.
[20:12] Was
If I kill this man, I will have arrived...
[20:19] Was
At the apex of my 75 years of life.
[20:28] Was
To the moment of supreme bliss.
[20:31] Was
I may have been born to kill this man.
[20:43] Nar
At the end of the first
and second matches,
[20:44] Nar
Akagi has lost 1,100 CCs of blood.
[20:48] Nar
Washizu has lost
118.5 million yen in cash.
[20:53] Nar
But in the third match,
[20:56] Nar
the monster Washizu Iwao has a hunch
that he may make a counterattack.
[21:00] Nar
A premonition of a great storm.
[21:02] Nar
The dawn of destruction is approaching.
[22:16] Nar
Next time, "The Power of Brute Luck."
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23 - The Power of Brute Luck
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[01:14] Nar
The genius from the
darkness, Akagi Shigeru.
[01:16] Nar
Washizu Iwao, the monster
of the Showa Era.
[01:19] Nar
The Washizu Mahjong deathmatch
[01:21] Nar
with both of their demises
on the line continues.
[01:24] Nar
Akagi managed to take the
lead in the first and second
[01:27] Nar
matches by outwitting Washizu.
[01:30] Nar
Washizu is being backed into a corner.
[01:32] Nar
However, he puts his pride as the
king who ruled from the shadows
[01:35] Nar
on the line and stays in the fight.
[01:38] Nar
Now the third match has begun.
[01:40] Nar
A new battle is about to commence.
SIGN Episode 23
SIGN The Power of Brute Luck
[01:49] Nar
Akagi has lost 1,100 CCs
of blood thus far.
[01:53] Nar
He has only 900 CCs left before death.
[01:57] Nar
He's on his last legs.
[02:07] Was
I'll finish him.
[02:09] Was
Destroying this man would be a
fitting end to my reign in Japan.
[02:22] Was
If possible, I want to
win by outranking him.
[02:25] Was
These high stakes led to
very special conditions,
[02:29] Was
and those in turn created
this special situation.
[02:35] Was
I don't want to use tricks to defeat him,
[02:37] Was
but crush him with my skills alone.
[02:40] Was
That will truly prove my superiority.
[02:44] Was
I will end you.
[02:48] Nar
However...
[02:49] Aka
Tsumo.
[02:56] Aka
Tsumo, ittsuu, three dora.
[03:01] Aka
Haneman.
[03:06] Nar
Akagi strikes first.
[03:09] Nar
By continuously discarding
what is unnecessary,
[03:12] Nar
he ends up with an ideal hand.
[03:14] Nar
It is the type of ideal
win that only comes when
[03:16] Nar
the flow of the game favors you.
[03:18] Nar
He pulls away from Washizu.
[03:24] Was
Don't get cocky, boy.
[03:29] Was
We're just getting started.
[03:30] Was
It's only East Hand 1.
[03:32] Was
The fight is just starting.
[03:38] Man
No.
[03:40] Man
This could get rough.
[03:42] Man
Based on what we've seen so far,
we have to admit that this man
[03:47] Man
might be one grade higher
than Washizu-sama.
[03:52] Man
He is like a demon.
[03:56] Man
And now the luck seems entirely
with him this third match.
[03:59] Man
Unless something big happens...
[04:04] Man
we'll lose!
[04:06] Nar
Should Washizu waste his chance
as dealer here in East Hand 2,
[04:12] Nar
the game will most likely go to Akagi.
[04:16] Nar
He must win, even with
a 1,500 or 2,000 hand.
[04:20] Nar
It is crucial for Washizu to turn
the flow of the game around.
[04:25] Nar
But Akagi won East Hand 1.
[04:29] Nar
The game is favoring him even more.
[04:31] Nar
Washizu is in a bad position.
[04:33] Nar
Just as everybody was thinking
that his hand is sinking,
[04:35] Nar
that it can only go down...
[04:41] Nar
An auspicious turn.
[04:44] Nar
Could this be Washizu's magic?
[04:47] Nar
He has no melds,
[04:48] Nar
but he is 3 tiles away from a
possible tanpin, sanshoku hand.
[04:52] Man
Not bad.
[04:54] Man
He could fight back with this.
[04:59] Man
The problem is Akagi's hand.
[05:04] Man
He has four black tiles.
[05:06] Man
I can't be too certain, but from
what I can see, it's not good.
[05:10] Man
There's some hope.
[05:12] Man
And yet...
[05:14] Man
Washizu-sama's born aptitude,
[05:16] Man
his power,
[05:19] Man
the strength of his luck...
[05:21] Man
Ordinary standards can't
measure how good his luck is.
[05:24] Man
No matter how many
times his back comes
[05:26] Man
up against the wall,
he comes out alive.
[05:29] Man
He is the type who will overcome
the worst odds to come out on top.
[05:37] Man
The same was true for the
recent vampire murders.
[05:41] Man
Even though he had to
sacrifice much of his fortune,
[05:44] Man
he survived despite having
committed those atrocities.
[05:48] Man
This man will always survive.
[05:54] Man
If you consider that...
[05:56] Man
there is still a chance we may win.
[05:59] Man
Akagi may be a better player,
but Washizu-sama has better luck.
[06:04] Man
And with that luck,
bestowed by the heavens,
[06:07] Man
he can bring Akagi to his knees.
[06:10] Man
He has a chance at victory!
[06:14] Nar
As if to confirm Yoshioka's thoughts,
Washizu draws a 9 of bamboo,
[06:17] Nar
which puts him two tiles from tenpai.
[06:22] Nar
But he loses the chance to get
a tanpin, sanshoku, tanyao.
[06:26] Man
That's fine.
[06:27] Man
Right now, that is fine.
[06:30] Man
Speed is of the essence.
[06:31] Man
More than anything, he needs
to focus on staying dealer.
[06:37] Nar
But in the next turn...
[06:41] Nar
He loses his chance
at a pinfu because his
[06:43] Nar
2 of bamboo pair turns into a triplet.
[06:47] Nar
Though his hand is progressing,
it's doing so in the worst way.
[06:50] Nar
His hand becomes increasingly cheaper.
[06:52] Nar
This just confirms that
Washizu is in a bad position.
[06:58] Nar
In a normal situation,
[06:59] Nar
useless draws at this point in the
game would be par for the course.
[07:02] Nar
But right now,
Washizu is forcing these tiles.
[07:08] Nar
He is like a writhing dragon
ascending into the stormy sky.
[07:19] Nar
A dragon who climbs through
the sky amidst violent winds.
[07:22] Nar
And yet, no matter how
strong this dragon may be,
[07:26] Nar
if it tries to force its way
upward against fierce headwinds,
[07:31] Nar
it will exhaust its strength and weaken...
[07:36] ---
and eventually fall.
[07:38] Nar
Even if...
[07:44] Nar
it's the monster called Washizu.
[07:48] Man
Now the sanshoku is gone, too.
[07:50] Man
It's a completely worthless hand.
[07:52] Man
But right now,
he needs to get into tenpai.
[07:55] Man
He has a two-sided wait.
[07:57] Man
Should he get the dora, the 6 of
circles, instead of the 9 of circles,
[08:01] Man
it will be a riichi, ippatsu, with one dora.
[08:03] Man
With any reverse dora,
it could even be a mangan.
[08:10] Nar
However,
[08:14] Nar
even that is gone.
[08:18] Nar
Everything drawn cheapened his hand.
[08:20] Nar
The potential for the mentanpin,
sanshoku is gone without a trace.
[08:24] Man
At least he's in tenpai.
[08:26] Man
And with this single wait
on the 1 of circles...
[08:31] Man
Suzuki can deal into his hand right away.
[08:34] Man
At least he can win.
[08:37] Nar
At this time, Washizu delays
calling a riichi for one turn.
[08:42] Nar
This is because Suzuki
could declare a kan.
[08:45] Nar
It's not too late to declare riichi
after Suzuki's kan reveals the new dora.
[08:50] Suz
Kan.
[08:54] Nar
In the current situation, he can't
expect miracles from the new dora.
[08:57] Nar
The flow of the entire game is against him.
[09:00] Nar
Everyone is thinking along those
lines for this concealed kan.
[09:03] Nar
And yet...
[09:20] guy
It's a...
[09:21] Yasu
1 of bamboo!
[09:22] Man
So the new dora is the 2 of bamboo?
[09:25] Nar
That means Washizu has...
[09:29] Nar
three dora!
[09:30] Nar
Three dora!
[09:32] Nar
Three dora!
[09:42] nar
An unexpected development.
[09:44] nar
Despite fighting an uphill battle,
[09:46] nar
Washizu gets three dora from
the new dora indicator.
[09:48] nar
Usually something like
this does not happen.
[09:52] guy
This is how strong Washizu-sama's luck is.
[09:57] guy
This is what he was born with.
[09:59] guy
No, it surpasses even that...
This is brute luck.
[10:26] was
Riichi.
[10:39] guy
That's it.
[10:40] guy
He's got a dealer mangan in the bag now.
[10:43] guy
Now Suzuki just has to deal
the 1 of circles into his hand.
[10:47] nar
Riichi, ippatsu, three dora.
[10:48] nar
If he gets any reverse dora,
it'll be a haneman or even a baiman.
[10:53] nar
Washizu gets a hand that
can cause an instant upset.
[10:56] guy
He can defeat Akagi!
[11:13] guy
What?
[11:15] guy
The 2 of characters?
[11:16] guy
What's going on?
[11:18] guy
Why didn't he deal that
1 of circles into his hand?
[11:22] guy
The 1 of circles we need
for the dealer mangan...
[11:32] guy
I get it!
[11:34] guy
Akagi has a 1 of circles.
[11:37] guy
And it looks like both the 1 and
3 of circles are useless to him.
[11:42] guy
So he'll be discarding those because...
[11:46] guy
Suzuki already has a
triplet of the 2 of circles
[11:48] guy
he needs to complete that sequence.
[11:51] guy
It's hard for him to complete the
sequence and it's a bad wait, too.
[11:57] guy
It's a closed wait he
must want to get rid of.
[11:59] guy
The 3 of circles is already a
safe tile with Washizu-sama.
[12:03] guy
And since Washizu-sama
didn't have Suzuki deal
[12:06] guy
the 1 of circles into his hand just now,
[12:09] guy
Akagi most likely thinks it'll pass, as well.
[12:13] nar
If one assumes that
[12:15] nar
Suzuki's tiles do not contain the
winning tile, but only safe tiles,
[12:19] nar
the logic of the second
discard pile is established.
[12:25] nar
Washizu set up a trap
by using that logic.
[12:32] guy
He added it to his hand!
[12:34] guy
If Akagi discards the 1 of circles...
he'll lose 1,200 CCs.
[12:42] guy
With the 1,100 CCs he already
lost, that'll be 2,300 CCs.
[12:47] guy
That's nearly half of
what a human body holds.
[12:50] guy
Of course he won't survive that.
[12:52] guy
He'll die!
[12:54] guy
He simply can't survive!
[12:57] nar
It's a veritable discard of death.
[13:01] guy
If it's the 1 of circles, it's...
[13:03] wash
Death!
[13:20] wash
Of course.
[13:22] wash
He would figure this one out.
[13:25] wash
He can see through this kind of trap.
[13:29] wash
That's to be expected of this kid.
[13:32] wash
His senses are extraordinary and
far surpass those of normal people.
[13:37] wash
But here, that's just fine.
[13:41] wash
If I always stick to the formula
[13:43] wash
of riichi followed by my winning
tile being discarded instantly,
[13:45] wash
the only thing I can gain is points.
[13:47] ---
There's never anything on top.
[13:52] wash
And that's no fun.
[13:54] wash
That won't breed any fear.
[13:57] wash
I am going to stick with this trap.
[14:00] wash
It'll be fun to sow the seed of suspicion.
[14:05] wash
Even if it's an obvious trap,
[14:07] wash
I'll deliberately sow the seed of suspicion.
[14:13] wash
Instead of the usual routine of riichi
followed by my winning tile,
[14:17] wash
I'll wait one turn for
seemingly no reason.
[14:20] wash
It'll be fun to see what he'll
make of the new pattern.
[14:25] wash
In other words, he'll be shaken.
[14:29] wash
I'm going to shake your confidence
in that second discard pile.
[14:34] wash
That'll show its effects later.
[14:38] wash
In a heavier,
[14:41] wash
heavier,
[14:43] wash
heavier scene.
[14:47] wash
The second discard pile you took
advantage of will breed doubt.
[14:50] wash
You thought you were smart, but soon
you will drown in your own cleverness.
[14:59] nar
Washizu's first draw after his riichi.
[15:02] nar
If he gets the ippatsu here,
he will have a haneman hand.
[15:05] nar
He'll get 6,000 from everybody and
Akagi will lose 600 CCs of blood.
[15:09] nar
A total of 1,700 CCs, an amount
that could easily be fatal.
[15:16] was
If I draw it, you will die.
[15:22] was
If this is the 1 of circles...
[15:28] was
Die!
[15:42] nar
He's right. If that had been the 1
of circles, Akagi would have died.
[15:46] nar
With no recourse, with no way of
defending himself, Akagi would have died.
[15:56] was
That's right.
[15:58] was
Why was I in such a rush?
[16:03] was
I lost my composure just because
I lost the first two matches
[16:07] was
and because I let him take
an early lead in the third.
[16:10] was
It's stupid to even feel
like I've been cornered.
[16:15] was
I am the one with the
utmost advantage here.
[16:19] was
He should be the one who's shaking.
[16:25] was
He kept that one.
[16:27] was
If I draw it, he'll either die instantly or be on the verge of dying.
[16:32] was
If he were to deal into my hand,
he'd die without question.
[16:38] was
He'll dry out and die.
[16:42] was
All he'll have left to do
is die a pathetic death.
[16:54] was
That's right.
[16:55] was
It's the opposite.
[16:57] was
The exact opposite.
[17:02] was
He's the one who's being
cornered and pressured.
[17:05] was
He's the one who's struggling.
[17:10] nar
Indeed, by merely getting into a tenpai
[17:11] nar
with a haneman hand, Washizu can
decisively corner his opponents.
[17:17] nar
That doesn't apply to just Akagi.
[17:25] was
That's right, be afraid.
[17:28] was
I'm the one on the higher ground!
[17:35] was
Even if I missed the ippatsu,
[17:36] was
one reverse dora will be
enough for a haneman.
[17:40] was
The haneman that'll bring death to Akagi.
[17:43] was
Meaning this is the draw that'll kill him.
[17:46] was
The draw that'll kill him.
[17:49] was
The draw that'll kill him.
[18:15] suz
Washizu-sama, what should I do?
[18:18] suz
Should I discard this?
[18:20] was
No no. Why rush?
[18:24] was
Let me have more fun.
[18:27] was
I can win at any time.
[18:29] was
Take a good look at their hands.
[18:34] was
That cop's hand is nowhere.
[18:36] was
That pair of red dragons could be key,
[18:38] was
but unless he can turn it into a triplet,
[18:41] was
he'll take ages to get into tenpai.
[18:44] was
And Akagi is... two away from tenpai, at best.
[18:50] was
He's out, too!
[18:53] nar
Since Suzuki has three of the 2 of circles,
[18:56] nar
Akagi would have to wait for the last
2 of circles, even if he was in tenpai.
[19:01] was
We'll keep going.
[19:02] suz
Yes, sir.
[19:06] was
We still have a lot of time to spare.
[19:09] nar
That same turn, Akagi...
[19:17] was
Fun! How fun!
[19:20] was
This is really fun.
[19:22] was
Now the 3 of circles has become his pair.
[19:25] was
So the 1 of circles is isolated now.
[19:29] was
Which means that maybe...
[19:37] was
Will it come out?
[19:43] was
So you won't discard it after all?
[19:45] was
I suppose you still have
more unnecessary tiles.
[19:49] was
But this man probably knows.
[19:53] was
That he can't discard that 1 of circles.
[19:56] was
I'm sure that he knows that the
1 of circles in Suzuki's hand is my trap.
[20:09] was
Oh, well.
[20:10] was
It doesn't matter how well
you can read our hands.
[20:19] was
If I draw it here, that's it.
[20:22] was
Everything will be over.
[20:27] was
That's right.
[20:28] was
If I draw it now, it'll be done.
[20:34] was
The 1 of circles!
[20:36] was
If I draw it, I can kill him.
[20:39] was
The 1 of circles!
[20:41] was
If I draw it, I can kill this man!
[20:46] nar
Death is already standing behind Akagi.
[20:49] nar
This is East Hand 2 of the fatal third match.
[20:53] nar
The monster Washizu with his brute luck...
[20:57] nar
What does he have in his grasp?
[21:00] nar
Is it Akagi's death sentence?
[21:04] nar
Or is it...
[22:16] nar
Next time, "The Will of the Demon."
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24 - The Will of the Demons
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[01:14] Nar
Washizu Mahjong, where defeat
means total destruction.
[01:17] Nar
The genius from the
darkness, Akagi Shigeru,
[01:19] Nar
displayed that genius
in the first two matches
[01:22] Nar
and turned the flow of
the game into his favor.
[01:26] Nar
In the third match, though,
with his back against the wall,
[01:29] Nar
Washizu showed his monster-like luck by
evolving a trash hand to a haneman hand.
[01:35] Nar
Akagi is in a desperate situation.
[01:37] Nar
The countdown to death is beginning.
[01:45] Was
One more tile.
[01:48] Was
I just need to draw one more
tile and I can kill this man.
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[02:07] Nar
Akagi has lost 1,100 CCs
of blood thus far.
[02:10] Nar
If Washizu draws his winning tile
for a haneman, each player pays 6,000.
[02:14] Nar
It means Akagi will lose
an additional 600 CCs.
[02:20] oug
That will put him one step
away from the fatal amount.
[02:23] oug
Each and every tile Washizu draws is
a potential death sentence for Akagi.
[02:34] Was
Just one more, Akagi.
[02:39] Was
And then I'll be able to kill you.
[02:44] Was
I can kill you.
[02:50] Was
Your life right now is a
veritable candle in the wind.
[02:56] Was
I can see it.
[03:01] Was
The flame of your life is about to die out.
[03:04] Was
That final flicker.
[03:10] Was
This could be the very tile
that extinguishes your life.
[03:17] Was
So... what's with him?
[03:22] Was
He's on the brink,
so why is he so calm?
[03:27] Was
Damn it!
[03:44] Was
This isn't fun at all.
[03:47] Was
It's only the ones around him who panic.
[03:50] Was
But the one who should panic most...
[03:53] Was
This punk... doesn't move a muscle.
[03:58] Was
This isn't fun.
[04:00] Was
Why aren't you afraid?
[04:02] Was
Why don't you tremble?
[04:04] Was
Do you think you won't die?
[04:07] Was
Do you think you cannot die?
[04:09] Was
Are you making light of all this?
[04:11] Was
You think it won't come to that?
[04:17] Was
So even if I draw my winning
tile, without a reverse dora,
[04:25] Was
I'll have a riichi, tsumo, three
dora, only a dealer mangan.
[04:28] Was
You're saying it won't
go so far as a haneman?
[04:33] Was
No.
[04:34] Was
Even so, a mangan tsumo as dealer
gets me 4,000 from each player.
[04:40] Was
Which means he'll have
400 CCs of blood drawn.
[04:45] Was
Combined with his blood until
now, that'll be 1,500 CCs.
[04:49] Was
He may not die from it,
but he'll be at the very end!
[04:52] Was
He'll barely be alive after
that much blood loss.
[04:56] Was
He'll be weaving.
[04:58] Was
In a half-dead state where he won't
even be able to think clearly.
[05:02] Was
If he keeps playing in that state,
a mistake is inevitable.
[05:06] Was
In the end, he will die.
[05:10] Was
This is a self-evident truth.
[05:13] Was
It is impossible that you
don't comprehend that.
[05:18] Was
So then, why don't you tremble?
[05:22] Was
Why?
[05:24] Was
Are you not afraid?
[05:27] Was
Of death?
[05:28] Was
Of dying?
[05:31] Was
Of dying?!
[05:33] Was
Of dying?!
[05:35] Was
Of dying?!
[05:42] Was
This cannot be.
[05:44] Was
Until now, every one of those
worthless young punks who died here
[05:49] Was
cracked their masks when the
moment of death became evident
[05:54] Was
and showed me their true, fragile face.
[06:01] (Flashback) Fake
Stop it!
[06:02] (Flashback) Fake
I don't want to die!
[06:04] (Flashback) Fake
I don't want to die!
[06:06] (Flashback) Fake
I don't want to die!
[06:07] Was
It's that tenacious desire to live.
[06:11] Was
They know it cannot be fulfilled
[06:16] Was
and yet they cling to it.
[06:19] Was
And then they expire.
[06:24] Was
And yet, this lunatic...
[06:28] Was
Lunatic. Lunatic!
[06:31] Was
This lunatic!
[06:35] Was
He cannot be an exception.
[06:38] Was
That is simply not possible.
[06:42] Suz
Washizu-sama.
[06:43] Was
What?
[06:45] Was
I told you to not deal into my hand yet.
[06:48] Suz
No, that's not it.
[06:55] Was
The 2 of circles?
[06:57] Was
You drew the fourth one?
[06:59] Was
This is fun.
[07:01] Suz
Shall I?
[07:03] Was
Of course!
[07:05] Suz
Yes, sir!
[07:08] Suz
Kan!
[07:10] Yasu
Not again!
[07:15] Nar
It's East Hand 2, the 11th turn.
[07:17] Nar
Suzuki declares another kan.
[07:20] Nar
This concealed kan will add
more support to Washizu.
[07:24] Nar
It's a greedy kan whose reverse
doras could boost his hand even more.
[07:36] Nar
It is fruitful.
[07:42] Nar
This means Washizu's hand
has evolved yet again.
[07:47] Yasu
1 of bamboo...
[07:48] Yasu
The new dora is the 2 of bamboo.
[07:51] Nar
It morphs!
[07:52] Nar
Into a six-dora hand.
[07:54] Nar
With a riichi, six dora,
[07:56] Nar
his hand is now guaranteed
to be a dealer's haneman.
[07:58] Nar
Should he draw his winning tile
or get even a single reverse dora,
[08:03] Nar
his hand would go all the
way to a dealer's baiman.
[08:05] Nar
It is truly an exceptional situation.
[08:09] Man
What remarkable... luck!
[08:17] Man
It's surging forward...
[08:19] Man
Something... coming to
elevate Washizu-sama.
[08:24] Man
Something magical.
[08:31] Was
I feel it.
[08:32] Was
I feel it now!
[08:35] Was
Is this powerful feeling...
is it the will of the demons?
[08:45] Suz
Washizu-sama, shall I discard it here?
[08:51] Nar
With the guaranteed dealer haneman,
[08:53] Nar
the current flow of the game
[08:54] Nar
suggests that the chance of
getting a reverse dora is high.
[08:58] Suz
Isn't this enough?
[09:01] Was
You fool.
[09:05] Was
What are you saying?
[09:06] Was
Why would I ever stop now?
[09:09] Was
Keep going, keep going!
[09:11] Was
If I draw the 1 of circles myself,
I'll have a dealer baiman.
[09:18] Was
8,000 points from everyone.
[09:21] Was
I'll be able to steal another
800 CCs of blood from him.
[09:26] Was
That will be a total of 1,900 CCs.
[09:31] Was
That amount of blood loss
is certain death.
[09:36] Was
An amount that is absolutely fatal.
[09:38] Was
He will die!
[09:41] Was
With his death so imminent,
even he must begin to tremble!
[09:48] Was
I must see it!
[09:51] Was
Show me that agony!
[09:54] Was
Tremble!
[09:56] Was
Show me your despair!
[10:13] Was
Keep going.
[10:19] Was
Now show me...
[10:21] Was
Start trembling from
despair and show me.
[10:24] Was
Under that mask of calm you wear,
[10:29] Was
show me your true, fragile self,
convulsing in fear as you cling to life.
[10:37] Was
If you discard it, you will,
undoubtedly, die.
[10:44] Was
Huh?
[10:45] Was
You put it in your hand again?
[10:49] Was
Interesting.
[10:51] Was
It seems like his hand is finally
starting to get somewhere.
[10:55] Was
Looks like you finally got rid
of most of your useless tiles.
[10:59] Was
So, will you finally get there,
[11:06] Was
to that 1 of circles?
[11:14] Nar
Suzuki's kan has completely
used up all the 2 of circles tiles.
[11:18] Nar
This closed wait has no way
of becoming a sequence.
[11:21] Nar
The 3 of circles pair still has potential,
[11:23] Nar
but the 1 of circles is
definitely worthless now.
[11:27] Was
You'll never get into tenpai if
you keep hanging on to that tile.
[11:33] Was
Why don't you discard it, Akagi?
[11:36] Was
Suzuki has a 1 of circles
in his second discard pile,
[11:39] Was
and you might just be
imagining that it's a trap.
[11:45] Was
Huh, Akagi?
[11:47] Was
After all, that is what
Mahjong is all about.
[11:51] Was
The 1 of circles might just pass.
[11:54] Was
Huh, Akagi?
[12:11] Was
What's this?
[12:12] Was
He still won't discard it?
[12:15] Was
Does he actually know?
[12:18] Was
Does he know I'm waiting
for the 1 of circles?
[12:22] Was
That's fine.
[12:24] Was
That's fine, too.
[12:30] Was
It just means that I'll
have to draw it for myself.
[12:37] Was
You will die!
[12:47] Was
You will die!
[12:51] Was
You will die!
[12:54] Was
You will die!
[12:57] Was
You will die.
[13:02] Was
What is this?
[13:05] Was
Why don't you tremble?
[13:07] Was
You will die from this draw...
[13:11] Was
Once I draw it...
[13:21] Was
Again, the only ones who seem
afraid are those around him.
[13:26] Was
And still, you've yet to move a muscle.
[13:29] Was
Why?
[13:31] Was
Why?!
[13:41] Man
What is this draw?
[13:43] Man
This flow?
[13:46] Nar
Unbelievably, he is now at eight dora!
[13:50] Was
Kan!
[14:02] Nar
By delaying Suzuki from dealing
into his hand immediately,
[14:07] Nar
Washizu's hand develops
in an unexpected way.
[14:18] Was
The demons have finally
taken possession of me.
[14:28] Was
I'm sorry, Akagi-kun, but it looks
like this is the end for you.
[14:36] Was
I can hear their voices...
[14:40] Was
The voices of the demons
who rule Mahjong.
[14:44] Was
The voices telling me to kill you.
[14:57] Yasu
He's a... monster.
[15:01] Nar
Once Washizu's luck is set in motion,
[15:03] Nar
it is beyond the understanding
of ordinary minds.
[15:06] Nar
Akagi's sense may be extraordinary,
[15:08] Nar
but Washizu's luck goes
to the utmost limit.
[15:12] Man
Anything can happen now.
[15:17] Man
It's godly.
[15:19] Man
Or perhaps the demons
truly have possessed him.
[15:26] Was
Shall we go on?
[15:28] Was
Before I draw my winning
tile from the dead wall,
[15:34] Was
let's see the new dora indicator.
[15:39] Was
Now, take me higher.
[15:42] Was
To an inconceivably high place.
[15:46] Was
Take me higher... higher and higher!
[16:11] Was
Look at this, Akagi-kun.
[16:16] Was
This is what the will of the demons
who rule Mahjong looks like.
[16:22] Yasu
What?
[16:24] Yasu
Another 1 of bamboo?!
[16:26] oug
Wh-Which means... 12 dora?!
[16:32] Yasu
This is impossible!
[16:34] Yasu
How can this happen?!
[16:37] Was
They're pushing down on me
with an unbelievable force.
[16:43] Was
They're pushing down on my back.
[16:48] Was
They're here.
[16:50] Was
Something beyond description
is on my back right now.
[16:56] Was
Something demonic
from the netherworld.
[17:01] Was
They're gathered in great numbers
and swarming around my back.
[17:14] Was
This old body can't
hold itself up anymore.
[17:19] Was
They're heavy... so heavy!
[17:23] Was
It hurts... it hurts!
[17:27] ---
Ah, it hurts!
[17:27] Man
Washizu-sama!
[17:39] Yasu
Evil spirits...
[17:50] Was
Look, Akagi...
[17:53] Was
I am truly possessed by demons now.
[17:57] Was
Anything is possible for me now.
[18:02] Was
Now it is inevitable.
[18:04] Was
It is inevitable that I
draw the winning tile.
[18:08] Was
Which means you will die,
[18:11] Was
Akagi Shigeru.
[18:15] Was
I'm not talking big here.
[18:19] Was
I'm certain you know.
[18:22] Was
You can feel it.
[18:25] Was
If anyone can understand it, it's you.
[18:28] Was
With a dealer baiman, you'll have
lost a total of 1,900 CCs of blood.
[18:36] Was
You would have a tiny
chance of survival.
[18:41] Was
But I have 14 han in my hand right now.
[18:46] Was
And with a dealer yakuman,
you really don't stand a chance.
[18:51] Was
Altogether, you would
lose 2,700 CCs of blood.
[18:56] Was
You'll die!
[19:00] Was
You have no choice but to die.
[19:04] Nar
Now Washizu reaches for
the dead wall draw.
[19:12] Was
I'll draw it and kill him.
[19:17] Was
Where are you?
[19:19] Was
1 of circles, where are you, 1 of circles?
[19:23] Was
Where are you?
[19:25] Was
Kill, kill.
[19:30] Was
I'll... kill... him.
[19:38] Was
I'll kill him.
[19:40] Was
Where are you, 1 of circles?
[19:43] Was
Come on out, my precious 1 of circles.
[19:51] Was
Where are you?
[19:52] Was
Where?
[19:54] Was
Is this it?
[19:56] Was
The 1 of circles?
[19:58] Was
So where is the 1 of circles?
[20:09] Was
Is this the one?
[20:14] Was
This one?
[20:17] Yasu
What... is this chill I'm feeling?
[20:21] Oug
Is this chill...
[20:30] Nar
Was it summoned by the madness
of this man possessed by evil?
[20:34] Nar
At that moment, it was
as if they could all see
[20:38] Nar
the demons erupting from
this old man's back.
[20:42] Nar
Everyone in the room could feel it.
[20:47] Nar
And they had come to kill Akagi.
[20:56] Nar
The game ruled by ruin,
Washizu Mahjong.
[20:59] Nar
With their tiles of life at stake,
East Hand 2 moves into its final stages.
[22:16] Nar
Next time,
"The Temptation of Murderous Intent."
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[01:13] nar
It's the third match of Washizu Mahjong,
where death and ruin are the wagers.
[01:17] nar
With his godly luck, Washizu
has turned his hand into
[01:20] nar
a riichi, 12-dora monster,
a counted yakuman.
SIGN Counted yakuman - Once you have 13 han or more, your hand is considered a yakuman.
[01:25] nar
Now he is about to draw
from the dead wall.
[01:28] was
You are going to die, Akagi Shigeru.
[01:34] nar
If he wins from it, he gets
16,000 from everybody.
[01:37] nar
Akagi has already lost
1,100 CCs of blood,
[01:41] nar
and would lose another 1,600 CCs
for a total of 2,700 CCs,
[01:46] nar
which far surpasses the lethal amount.
SIGN Episode 25
SIGN The Temptation of Murderous Intent
[01:56] was
Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!
[02:01] was
Come on, 1 of circles!
[02:10] nar
Were they summoned by the madness
of Washizu, possessed by evil?
[02:17] nar
Devils, demons, and evil spirits
have come in great numbers to kill...
[02:24] nar
Akagi Shigeru.
[02:27] was
Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!
[02:34] nar
But Akagi deflects it.
[02:39] nar
The demons, the monsters,
the devils, the evil, the madness!
[02:49] was
What is it with this brat?
[02:52] was
He still won't tremble?
[02:53] was
He still refuses to fear me?
[02:56] was
Me, who stands at the
highest pinnacle of all?
[03:01] was
Me, Washizu Iwao,
the incarnation of God?!
[03:11] was
Which one was it?
[03:14] was
The tile I drew in before...
[03:18] was
Is it this one?
[03:29] nar
No success.
[03:29] was
Damn it!
[03:32] nar
Washizu's dead wall
draw did not succeed.
[03:39] nar
At one point, Washizu had his
fingers closed on the winning tile.
[03:45] nar
He reached for the heavens
but couldn't grasp them.
[03:48] nar
He had the chance of a lifetime,
but let it slip away.
[03:54] nar
Akagi, on the other hand, survived.
[03:57] nar
With that said, he's still
just one step away from death.
[04:01] nar
His desperate situation still continues.
[04:06] suz
Washizu-sama.
[04:09] suz
Let me deal into your hand.
[04:11] nar
At this point,
[04:12] nar
Akagi has 37,000 points.
[04:14] nar
If Washizu wins this dealer yakuman
[04:16] nar
with 48,000 points,
[04:18] nar
he'll overtake Akagi
[04:20] nar
and have a 33,000 point lead.
[04:24] suz
With that big a lead, you should be
able to win this East-South match.
[04:28] suz
Let's end it here, Washizu-sama.
[04:35] was
I suppose so.
[04:37] was
Anybody would think this is enough.
[04:43] was
There's less than a 1% chance for
me to get a direct hit off Akagi.
[04:47] was
And waiting to get a tsumo with
[04:50] was
an equally small chance
isn't getting me anywhere.
[04:53] was
Both their hands are still
far from being ready.
[04:56] was
This huge hand should be
bagged sooner than later.
[05:01] was
That is logical.
[05:02] was
But, Suzuki, that's precisely the
reason that we'll keep going.
[05:07] was
Deliberately keep playing.
[05:09] was
Keep playing and stalk him.
[05:13] was
Something's not right
in that brat's mind.
[05:15] was
He's a freak who doesn't fear death.
[05:17] was
In order to kill a lunatic like that,
[05:20] was
we also have to abandon
that which is normal.
[05:24] was
Only then can we snare
him and kill him.
[05:30] was
Follow him!
[05:31] was
Chase him!
[05:31] was
Stalk him!
[05:32] was
Pursue him relentlessly and kill him!
[05:34] was
Right now. Right here!
[05:38] was
The ultimate goal is to get a
tsumo or to get a direct hit.
[05:44] nar
Suzuki follows Washizu's orders and
delays dealing into his hand yet again.
[05:49] nar
Washizu abandons reason and
chooses to keep the game going.
[05:56] nar
On the other hand, Akagi...
[05:59] nar
draws an effective tile.
[06:02] nar
He has now drawn five
effective tiles in a row.
[06:07] nar
Despite that, he's still two tiles from tenpai.
[06:10] nar
The way to victory is still long.
[06:12] nar
In that sense,
Washizu had inferred correctly.
[06:17] nar
Akagi was still far from the
goal, so he had time to spare.
[06:21] nar
However, it only seems
that way at first glance.
[06:27] nar
Once a certain condition
is met, Akagi's hand
[06:30] nar
will progress at breakneck speed.
[06:33] nar
Washizu was underestimating this.
[06:35] nar
This change, this shifting that
happens in Mahjong, and its possibilities.
[06:41] nar
And then, Yasuoka...
[06:45] nar
draws it.
[06:47] nar
The fated 1 of circles.
[06:49] nar
The tile that will decide this match
[06:52] nar
and the fates of Akagi and Washizu.
[06:58] was
How can this be?!
[07:00] was
Of all the tiles,
how could he draw that one?!
[07:05] nar
Washizu's winning tile, the last
1 of circles, ends up with Yasuoka.
[07:13] nar
Washizu no longer has the
chance to win with a tsumo.
[07:16] nar
Now he can only win by
Suzuki dealing into his hand,
[07:20] nar
or by getting a direct hit off Akagi,
which is 99% unlikely.
[07:25] nar
To make matters worse for Washizu,
[07:27] nar
with the drawing of this 1 of circles,
[07:29] nar
the conditions for Akagi's
side have been met.
[07:32] nar
Akagi, who's been quietly
laying low for so long...
[07:39] aka
Pon.
[07:41] nar
...finally makes his move.
[07:45] was
What?
[07:48] yas
Pon!
[07:51] aka
Pon.
[07:55] was
Oh, no!
[07:56] was
I can't believe these bastards!
[07:58] was
They're trying to keep me
from getting another turn!
[08:00] was
They're trying to shut down
this hand by themselves
[08:03] was
without giving me a
chance to do anything.
[08:07] yas
Chi.
[08:18] aka
Pon.
[08:23] was
It'll end... it'll be over...
[08:26] was
He'll have a 3, 6 of circles wait.
[08:28] was
He'll get into tenpai and then
that cop will deal into his hand.
[08:33] was
It'll be over!
[08:36] was
My 12 dora, my counted yakuman,
my miracle will disappear...
[08:41] was
It'll disappear!
[08:43] was
Everything will be wasted.
[08:53] was
Oh, I see. I get it!
[08:56] was
If he's going for a 3, 6 of circles wait,
[08:58] was
he'll have to get rid of the 1 of circles.
[09:02] was
Meaning it'll come out one step
before the cop can deal into Akagi's hand.
[09:05] was
My 1 of circles!
[09:09] was
I won!
[09:10] was
I've won by one step.
[09:11] was
My determination has defeated Akagi!
[09:14] was
It's true that my abnormal wait,
[09:17] was
my drawing things out,
has created this opening.
[09:19] was
This opening allowed
them to mount an attack,
[09:24] was
but at the same time it also
got a shot in on that man.
[09:28] was
It created a crack in
his calm judgment.
[09:34] was
He probably never thought
I would delay winning so long
[09:37] was
if I was in the position to do so.
[09:41] was
Once I reached the
yakuman, there's no point
[09:43] was
in insisting on getting
a tsumo or a direct hit.
[09:45] was
Winning off Suzuki's tile
would be sufficient.
[09:49] was
With those 48,000 points I wouldn't
be able to kill him directly,
[09:53] was
but I could kill him with
the ranking payments.
[09:54] was
There's no reason to prolong the
risk and delay winning any further.
[09:59] was
That's where he misread me.
[10:03] was
In other words, he misread
me for someone who needs
[10:06] was
to kill him right away, this instant!
[10:16] was
And these 12 dora...
[10:19] was
The threat of this dealer's yakuman,
this monster hand, has mislead him.
[10:25] was
Even if this is still East Hand 2,
catching up to a dealer yakuman is hard.
[10:30] was
That impatience, that irritation
is what made him move.
[10:35] was
It'll probably pass...
[10:37] was
It'll probably be fine...
[10:39] was
It shouldn't be a problem...
[10:41] was
He acted with that kind of naïve hope.
[10:44] was
This yakuman has poisoned him.
[10:48] was
It poisoned his heart.
[10:51] was
That's why his heart wavered.
[10:55] was
Towards safety...
[10:56] was
That's why it gave in.
[10:58] was
For that one discard!
[11:01] was
He's lacking a certain readiness.
[11:03] was
They're not awake.
[11:05] was
His awareness.
[11:06] was
His mind.
[11:07] was
His senses.
[11:08] was
That's why he will die.
[11:10] was
He will die because of it.
[11:17] was
Now come!
[11:19] was
Come!
[11:27] was
Now discard it.
[11:30] was
Discard it!
[11:31] was
Discard it!
[11:32] was
Discard it!
[11:33] was
That 1 of circles.
[11:35] was
My 1 of circles.
[11:42] was
What's wrong?
[11:43] was
Discard it.
[11:45] was
What's wrong?
[11:46] was
D-Don't tell me...
[11:48] was
You've come all this way,
and then in the last crucial moment,
[11:52] was
you instinctively sensed the danger,
[11:56] was
the sinister nature of the 1 of circles,
[12:00] was
and are going to play it safe instead?!
[12:03] was
That's right.
[12:05] was
That's it.
[12:06] was
Come.
[12:06] was
Discard it.
[12:07] was
Discard it and be relieved.
[12:10] was
Deal into my 12-dora hand.
[12:14] was
That's it.
[12:15] was
Keep going.
[12:17] was
Come!
[12:18] was
Come!
[12:18] was
Jump into my arms!
[12:20] was
You tasty, tasty 1 of circles!
[12:22] was
Come!
[12:24] was
Discard it!
[12:25] was
Discard it!
[12:25] was
Discard it!
[12:26] was
Discard it!
[12:27] was
Discard it!
[12:27] was
Discard it!
[12:36] was
Ron!
[12:36] was
Ron!
[12:37] was
Ron!
[12:37] was
Ron!
[12:37] was
Ron!
[12:38] was
Ron!
[12:38] was
Ron!
[12:48] nar
The chemicals in Washizu's
brain rush around.
[12:52] nar
Beta-endorphins, tyrosine, enkephalin,
valine, lysine, leucine, isoleucine.
[12:58] was
I won!
[12:59] was
I won!
[13:01] was
I won!
[13:10] was
I survived!
[13:18] aka
...hear, Washizu Iwao?
[13:24] aka
You didn't hear, Washizu Iwao?
[13:32] yas
Ron.
[13:32] yas
Red dragon, one dora.
[13:34] yas
Head bump.
[13:51] yas
Stop it!
[13:53] guy
Washizu-sama, please stop!
[13:55] guy
Washizu-sama!
[13:56] guy
Washizu-sama!
[14:07] aka
Your senses have dulled,
Washizu Iwao.
[14:12] aka
That's because you are afraid.
[14:16] was
What?
[14:21] was
Impossible!
[14:22] was
Me, afraid?
[14:24] aka
That's right.
[14:27] aka
That dead wall draw after
you got to 12 dora...
[14:30] aka
That was the crossroads,
and not just in hindsight.
[14:35] aka
You should have realized it then,
[14:40] aka
that the flow of the game had been
reversed and was going against you.
[14:44] aka
Instead of chasing me further,
[14:46] aka
you should have just let
Suzuki deal into your hand.
[14:50] aka
Then you would have been able to
at least pick up the 48,000 points.
[14:56] aka
You should have been
satisfied with that.
[15:00] aka
But you forced the game onward,
and dug your own grave.
[15:07] aka
Even though it sent you a sign
that you had reached the limit.
[15:12] aka
You ignored that valuable
warning, that counsel.
[15:17] aka
Crude.
[15:18] aka
Dense.
[15:20] aka
Your regular self probably
wouldn't have done that.
[15:23] aka
Normally you would have listened.
[15:26] aka
You would have felt the fine gravity
of that sign and would have obeyed it.
[15:32] aka
You would have made Suzuki
deal into your hand.
[15:35] aka
You would have been reluctant,
[15:37] aka
but there wouldn't
have been any problems.
[15:40] aka
But it only looked like you
had momentum on the surface,
[15:43] aka
while deep down in the core of
your being, you were afraid.
[15:48] aka
Because of that,
[15:50] aka
your greed took over and insisted
on getting the tsumo or direct hit.
[15:55] aka
Thus you tried to take the
shortcut to finish the match.
[15:58] was
Preposterous!
[15:59] was
What are you talking about?!
[16:00] was
There's none of that fear in me!
[16:04] was
Not a single ounce of it!
[16:08] was
But...
[16:09] was
I might indeed have
been caught up in it...
[16:13] was
In the temptation of that
murderous intent to kill you.
[16:17] was
If I regret anything, it's that.
[16:21] was
I have to weaken it... this intent,
this temptation to kill you.
[16:27] was
Hey!
[16:28] guy
Yes?!
[16:29] was
Pick up the tiles already!
[16:31] guys
Yes, sir!
[16:45] was
We're resuming the game!
[16:49] nar
Washizu Mahjong resumes
with East Hand 3.
[17:03] aka
Washizu, the real problem is where
that murderous intent stems from.
[17:10] aka
You should have an inkling, as well.
[17:13] aka
About where it's coming from.
[17:16] aka
Yes, the root of that
murderous intent...
[17:20] aka
is fear.
[17:23] aka
You want to kill because
you don't want to die.
[17:25] aka
That's why you rush to kill.
[17:31] aka
I got some glimpses of that fear
in the first and second match, too,
[17:36] aka
but this time I was able to
clearly see it out in the open.
[17:41] aka
At the beginning of the third match,
I could sense this enthusiasm,
[17:45] aka
this motivation in Washizu to win
purely by skill, by outranking me.
[17:52] aka
But that feeling was shoved aside
whenever a chance came to him.
[17:59] aka
It was quickly forgotten.
[18:01] ---
He wanted to kill.
[18:02] aka
He wanted to kill right away.
[18:05] aka
He wanted to kill right now.
[18:07] aka
He couldn't restrain that impulse.
[18:09] aka
Because he wanted to survive himself.
[18:15] aka
Yes, that is Washizu's source.
[18:19] aka
His desire to live.
[18:22] aka
Washizu has an abnormally
tenacious desire to live.
[18:26] aka
After all, his life was driven
by this most basic fear.
[18:32] aka
That's why he wanted to get away.
[18:34] aka
He wanted to get as far as possible from
this fear of death, from destruction.
[18:40] aka
In order to achieve that, he had to build.
[18:43] aka
More and more.
[18:47] aka
In reality, that's all Washizu is.
[18:53] aka
The big air he puts on
and his appearance
[18:57] aka
are all because of his money.
[19:00] aka
If you remove that costume of
money, there's isn't much left.
[19:07] aka
The thing you'll find there is...
[19:10] aka
...a crazed rat.
[19:13] aka
A lone, ugly rat with a
bizarre glint in its eyes.
[19:20] aka
Pon.
[19:26] was
Since he discarded the 3 of circles
after calling the honor tile,
[19:30] was
he's probably in tenpai.
[19:32] was
Damn it.
[19:36] was
There it is.
[19:37] was
I'm in tenpai, too!
[19:38] was
That's if I discard either the 5
of bamboo or the 3 of characters.
[19:41] was
But it looks like both of these
are potentially his winning tile.
[19:48] was
Damn!
[19:52] was
I've got no choice.
[19:53] was
I'll play it safe and change my plans.
[19:56] was
I'll go for a chiitoitsu.
[19:58] was
Then I won't have to discard either
the 5 of bamboo or the 3 of characters.
[20:03] aka
Ron.
[20:09] was
What?
[20:15] aka
You're actually quite the
coward, Washizu Iwao.
[20:21] was
Me?
[20:22] was
You call me a coward?!
[20:27] aka
You can't erase your fear that easily.
[20:31] aka
Once your heart has been
infiltrated by fear,
[20:33] aka
you can't break free from being
weak-spirited that easily.
[20:39] aka
So then all I have to do is target...
[20:43] aka
those weak spots.
[20:49] nar
Akagi has made a recovery
from his desperate situation.
[20:53] nar
Will he be able to push Washizu
all the way to destruction now?
[20:58] nar
The endless battle with death
and destruction on the line
[21:01] nar
is about to enter a stage
beyond imagination.
[22:16] nar
Next time, "Madness and Darkness and..."
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SIGN Episode 26
SIGN Madness and Darkness and...
[01:25] Was
What?
[01:27] Was
What the hell is he?
[01:31] Was
Who does he think I am?
[01:38] Was
I am this country's king.
[01:40] Was
Until now, all have bowed
before me, without exception.
[01:44] Was
Be it ministers of the cabinet,
organized crime bosses, police,
[01:50] Was
bureaucrats, banks, zaibatsus,
religious leaders.
[01:57] Was
I ruled over them all of them.
[02:02] Was
And yet this punk... this brat!
[02:07] Was
It's ridiculous!
[02:10] Was
This cannot be allowed.
[02:13] Was
It simply can't be allowed.
[02:17] Was
You will bow down before me.
[02:19] Nar
If he discards the 4 of circles,
Washizu will be in tenpai.
[02:32] Was
This 4 of circles is most likely
the enemy's winning tile.
[02:36] Was
Damn it!
[02:38] Was
I can't discard it.
[02:42] (Flashback) aka
You're actually quite the
coward, Washizu Iwao.
[02:48] (Flashback) aka
So then all I have to do is target...
[02:50] (Flashback) aka
those weak spots.
[02:52] Was
That's insane.
[02:53] Was
I am the king!
[02:55] Was
The king!
[02:57] Was
You peasant.
[03:00] Was
I'll make this pass.
[03:02] Was
I'll make it!
[03:10] Aka
Ron.
[03:11] Aka
5,200.
[03:16] Man
This is horrible.
[03:18] Man
He couldn't even keep
himself from dealing into
[03:20] Man
that obvious 4, 7 of circles wait.
[03:22] Man
He has completely lost himself.
[03:26] Nar
It's true for ordinary Mahjong as well,
[03:28] Nar
but in Washizu Mahjong, keeping a
cool head is even more crucial.
[03:32] Nar
Specifically, keeping
control of your own fear.
[03:36] Nar
Should you waver here, you will
sink into a bog of endless doubts.
[03:41] Nar
You will be led astray by illusions
[03:43] Nar
and either destroy your hand by
wandering off into the void
[03:46] Nar
or make a bold move
just to get away from that.
[03:54] Nar
It's a reactionary failure.
[03:59] Nar
Once it starts,
there is no stopping it.
[04:04] Aka
Ron.
[04:07] Nar
He will keep falling and falling.
[04:11] Nar
Right now, Washizu looks exactly
like the young men he's killed until now.
[04:17] Nar
They were also controlled
by their own fear.
[04:20] Nar
They lost their balance
and started a chain
[04:21] Nar
of outrageous discards and
giving up on the game.
[04:24] Nar
They died, having lost the sense of
what is normal and what is abnormal.
[04:30] Nar
This is Washizu's first taste of that,
[04:34] Nar
that essence of Washizu Mahjong.
[04:49] Was
I can't discard the 7 of bamboo.
[04:55] Nar
That's right.
[04:56] Nar
Washizu has played Washizu
Mahjong many, many times,
[04:59] Nar
but he has never participated
in the truest sense of the term.
[05:03] Nar
While his opponent fought for his life,
[05:06] Nar
Washizu alone always stood protected.
[05:10] Nar
By his overwhelming funds.
[05:13] Nar
It never was a fair fight.
[05:18] Nar
A handicapped fight.
[05:19] Nar
Or rather, for Washizu,
the battle called Washizu Mahjong
[05:22] Nar
existed in another dimension.
[05:26] Nar
In other words,
[05:28] Nar
a hunt.
[05:30] Nar
A hunt where he hunted down a wild,
running beast with an ultimate weapon.
[05:36] Nar
Far from being a deathmatch,
it was one-sided murder.
[05:42] Nar
Washizu is the one who kills.
[05:44] Nar
His opponent is the
one who gets killed.
[05:48] Nar
That is what Washizu
Mahjong was to Washizu.
[05:55] Nar
But now...
[05:57] Nar
a beast beyond his wildest
imagination has appeared.
[06:05] Nar
Not only does this beast not
fear death, it also happens...
[06:12] Nar
to attack Washizu.
[06:19] Nar
It wants to kill Washizu.
[06:22] Was
Why?
[06:23] Was
Why does this man exist?
[06:28] Was
Why does this...
[06:33] Was
demon... exist?
[06:35] Was
I can't deal any bamboo tile.
[06:40] Aka
Ron.
[06:42] Aka
Tanyao, one dora.
[06:43] Aka
2,900.
[06:55] Nar
In the end, Washizu lost the third match
[06:57] Nar
and then the fourth, in succession.
[07:01] Nar
At his wit's end, he falls apart.
[07:04] Nar
After the third match,
[07:05] Nar
the gap between him
and Akagi is 107,000 points.
[07:07] Nar
At the end of the fourth,
it's 63,000 points.
[07:10] Nar
Altogether, that's 170,000 points.
[07:13] Nar
Adding in the direct hit
and tsumo bonuses makes a
[07:16] Nar
grand total of 195,000 points.
[07:18] Nar
In other words,
Washizu has lost 195 million yen,
[07:22] Nar
and his total loss amounts
to 313.5 million yen.
[07:27] Nar
This amount in 1965 would equate
to about 3.2 billion yen today.
[07:34] Nar
At the start of the game,
Washizu's 500 million seemed endless,
[07:38] Nar
but he has now fallen
under 200 million.
[07:41] Nar
On the other hand, the amount
of blood Akagi lost in the third
[07:44] Nar
and fourth matches only
amounts to 300 CCs.
[07:46] Nar
It is a miracle he was
able to keep it so low,
[07:48] Nar
but he has already lost
a total of 1,400 CCs.
[07:56] Nar
Akagi versus Washizu.
[07:58] Nar
This battle wagering their
death and destruction
[08:01] Nar
has now been going
for over three hours.
[08:04] Nar
The trend has been set.
[08:06] Nar
Washizu, four consecutive losses.
[08:09] Man
This is harsh.
[08:11] Man
More than that...
[08:13] Man
is it over?
[08:16] Man
But that kid really is immeasurable.
[08:21] Man
Not once has he dealt
into Washizu's hand.
[08:24] Man
All of the blood he's lost has been
due to Washizu-sama's tsumo wins.
[08:30] Man
Can this even be possible?
[08:32] Man
He is like a demon.
[08:35] Man
Thinking of the fatal amount though,
he's already lost 1,400 CCs.
[08:41] Man
It'll only take a small push now.
[08:44] Man
Not even a mangan.
[08:45] Man
A direct hit of 5,200 would kill him.
[08:49] Man
But that's only because he has yet
to transfer any of his blood back.
[08:55] Man
Looking at his overwhelming
skill and luck,
[08:58] Man
it's deceptive to say
"only a small push."
[09:01] Man
That's an illusion.
[09:03] Man
One must not be fooled by it.
[09:05] Man
This is the strategy of
the demon called Akagi.
[09:08] Man
It beckons us on to the next stage
of the battle, to our destruction.
[09:13] Man
If we keep going,
[09:16] Man
he won't have to take any more
drastic measures to keep us playing.
[09:20] Man
Should he lose any more blood,
he will naturally transfer some back.
[09:25] Man
If that happens, Washizu-sama won't
even have a 1% chance of winning.
[09:30] Man
This is the end.
[09:32] Man
It would be wise to end it here.
[09:35] Man
The 300 million loss hurts, of course,
but there's nothing we can do.
[09:41] Man
Looking at it another way,
we still have 200 million left.
[09:44] Man
In a regular match, he probably
would have taken all of the 500 million.
[09:50] Man
We stop every two matches and we have
[09:52] Man
the power to get out of the
game at any of those stops.
[09:57] Man
This privilege will keep us alive.
[10:00] Man
Looking back, putting in this
condition was priceless.
[10:04] Man
Because we survived.
[10:06] Man
Wounded, but still standing.
[10:15] Oug
It's over.
[10:17] Oug
He's not going to keep going.
[10:20] Oug
The game has been decided.
[10:22] Yasu
Well, we didn't get the full 500
million, but this is enough.
[10:28] Oug
I'll be honest, I'm relieved.
[10:30] Oug
The money was one thing, but if we'd
lost, I would've lost one of my arms!
[10:35] Oug
Hey.
[10:36] Oug
Get ready to leave.
[10:38] Guy
Yes, sir.
[10:39] Aka
What are you talking about?
[10:44] Aka
It's not over yet.
[10:48] Aka
Washizu will keep going.
[10:52] Oug
What are you talking about?!
[10:54] Yasu
That's crazy!
[10:55] Yasu
It's not possible!
[10:57] Yasu
This is the time to stop!
[10:58] Yasu
What possible reason could
we have to keep going?
[11:01] Yasu
Besides, Washizu's exhausted.
[11:04] Yasu
He can't even stand up.
[11:06] Aka
Of course, we can't continue this way.
[11:10] Aka
He needs a compromise,
from our side.
[11:13] Both
What?
[11:16] Aka
So far, all of my wins have
been surprise attacks,
[11:19] Aka
taking advantage of Washizu's
misunderstandings and his carelessness.
[11:24] Aka
He got caught up in it
and started to sink.
[11:28] Aka
Once he noticed, it was irreversible.
[11:33] Aka
He hasn't fought me directly yet.
[11:36] Aka
Which means he hasn't fought
me at his full capacity yet.
[11:40] Aka
But if we keep going, it will be different.
[11:45] Aka
It'll be a real face-off.
[11:48] Aka
There will be no carelessness
nor underestimating.
[11:52] Aka
I want to fight him like that.
[11:56] Aka
In a real face-off.
[11:59] Aka
Or I would leave here, not knowing
what the real Washizu is like.
[12:04] Aka
It would end without me seeing the
true nature and power of Washizu.
[12:10] Aka
Seeing him like that,
he looks just like a lone rat.
[12:15] Aka
The truth is, at one point,
I thought of him like that.
[12:18] Aka
Is it possible though?
[12:22] Aka
For such a small person, such a rat,
[12:24] Aka
to gain the title of the king ruling
from the shadows in just one generation?
[12:29] Aka
Could he have risen to such
a feared, lofty position?
[12:34] Aka
No.
[12:35] Aka
An ordinary person cannot aggrandize
himself to that degree.
[12:39] Aka
There's something to him.
[12:41] Aka
Washizu's core is not
the rat we see now.
[12:46] Aka
There is something deeper within him.
[12:49] Aka
And if that's true, we must see it.
[12:53] Aka
That thing deep within,
Washizu's true self,
[12:57] Aka
his source of power.
[13:00] Aka
So then...
[13:03] Aka
Can you push that for me?
[13:07] Yasu
Akagi...
[13:08] Yasu
Hey, wait.
[13:10] Yasu
What are you thinking?
[13:16] Man
What?
[13:17] Man
What do you want?
[13:18] Aka
Break time is over.
[13:21] Aka
Get up.
[13:23] Aka
It's time to start.
[13:26] Man
Stop this.
[13:28] Man
That is not possible.
[13:30] Man
Washizu-sama is not in
a condition to continue!
[13:35] Aka
You okay with that, Washizu?
[13:37] Aka
Having this punk talk for you?
[13:41] Aka
Here, I'll wake you up.
[13:46] Aka
I'm going to borrow one of these.
[13:53] Yasu
What the hell are you...
[13:55] Yasu
Hey!
[13:58] Oug
Akagi, what are you doing?
[14:00] Oug
That's your blood!
[14:01] Oug
You need to get that transfused back!
[14:09] Oug
You idiot!
[14:11] Oug
What the hell are you doing?
[14:12] Oug
That's dirty!
[14:14] Oug
That thing is not sterilized, Akagi!
[14:18] Aka
I don't care.
[14:19] Oug
What do you mean?!
[14:21] Oug
Hey!
[14:22] Aka
I mean this...
[14:29] Yasu
What?!
[14:30] Oug
You idiot!
[14:31] Oug
Hurry up and get that out!
[14:41] Oug
You moron!
[14:44] Oug
How could you do that?
[14:47] Man
H-He's crazy.
[14:49] Man
What is this?
[14:51] Man
Where is the good in this?
[14:55] Aka
You awake now, Washizu?
[14:58] Aka
I'm throwing it out.
[15:00] Aka
As you can see, I'm throwing away the
1,400 CCs of blood I've lost thus far.
[15:05] Aka
We'll go on from here.
[15:07] Aka
How about matches five and six?
[15:09] Oug
Akagi!
[15:10] Oug
You idiot!
[15:11] Oug
What are you saying?
[15:12] Oug
Take that back!
[15:14] Oug
I'm not going to let you do this.
[15:16] Was
What happens now?
[15:19] Was
What happens to the blood I
draw after this, when I tsumo?
[15:24] Aka
I don't need that, either.
[15:26] Aka
You can throw it away
as soon as you draw it.
[15:28] Oug
Akagi!
[15:29] Oug
Are you even aware of what
you're saying right now?!
[15:33] Oug
This is suicide!
[15:35] Oug
Akagi!
[15:44] Was
300 CCs more.
[15:47] Was
I want you to draw 300
more CCs right now.
[15:51] Was
As a bonus.
[15:54] Oug
You idiot.
[15:57] Aka
Looks like you're getting
back into it, Washizu.
[16:00] Aka
That's more like you.
[16:01] Oug
Hey!
[16:03] Aka
But I can't do that.
[16:05] Aka
My blood is my life.
[16:07] Aka
You can only take it by
winning it from me in a game.
[16:19] Was
I just wanted to see how far I
could get by pushing my luck.
[16:25] Was
But you're pretty stingy, Akagi.
[16:29] Was
Very well.
[16:31] Was
For your arrogance in throwing
away your own blood...
[16:34] Was
For that conceit...
[16:36] Was
I'll kill you.
[16:38] Man
Washizu-sama!
[16:39] Yasu
Don't worry.
[16:44] Was
Now, let's go on.
[16:46] Man
Washizu-sama!
[16:50] Man
But...
[16:53] Was
It's fine.
[16:54] Was
There is nothing to fear.
[16:56] Was
Now I know what I must do.
[17:00] Was
I wasn't using the right
strategy before now.
[17:04] Was
To put it short,
that man is utterly mad.
[17:06] Was
He's a psycho with a death wish.
[17:09] Was
Just think about it.
[17:11] Was
He's already lost 1,400 CCs of blood.
[17:15] Was
He is literally one
step away from death.
[17:17] Was
One more push would be enough.
[17:20] Man
That is undoubtedly true,
but that man, he is...
[17:25] Was
Just watch.
[17:28] Was
I'll win.
[17:29] Was
I won't even have to go
until the sixth match.
[17:32] Was
I'll kill him sometime in the
East round of the fifth match.
[17:43] Was
If there is any justice in the world.
[17:51] Was
And yet...
[17:54] Was
they seem rather lonely.
[17:57] Was
You.
[17:57] ---
Sir?
[18:00] Was
Come with me.
[18:10] Oug
This is unbelievable.
[18:11] Oug
What the hell are you doing?
[18:14] Oug
You should've stopped
while you were ahead.
[18:19] Oug
That is the natural order of
things, that would make sense.
[18:22] Oug
There's no reason to force
it into the next match!
[18:26] Oug
Not to mention that you
threw away all your blood!
[18:32] Oug
You're beyond crazy!
[18:35] Oug
You're marching off to your own death.
[18:38] Oug
Washizu said it: this time, it's not
about being this or that kind of genius.
[18:44] Oug
It's not about that at all.
[18:46] Oug
You're a lunatic.
[18:47] Oug
Nothing but a lunatic with a death wish.
[18:51] Oug
I misjudged you.
[18:53] Oug
This guy is beyond anything
we can conceptualize.
[18:58] Oug
An outlier.
[19:01] Oug
A lunatic.
[19:03] Oug
At this rate, I'll get dragged
down with this lunatic.
[19:10] Oug
Straight down into hell.
[19:22] Oug
What is that?
[19:27] Was
My last secret savings of 100 million.
[19:31] Both
What?!
[19:34] Was
With this addition,
I have 300 million left.
[19:39] Was
With this, I'm safe.
[19:43] Was
I can go forward in the game,
knowing I'm protected.
[19:48] Was
And I'll draw that last
600 CCs of your blood!
[19:57] Was
There are no exceptions.
[20:00] Was
Everyone is equal in
dying after 2,000 CCs.
[20:05] Was
You will die.
[20:11] Was
I'm sorry I kept you waiting.
[20:13] Was
Then let us begin, Akagi Shigeru!
[20:24] Nar
The genius wagering a
meaningless death, Akagi Shigeru,
[20:27] Nar
and the king of the shadows
wagering his ruin, Washizu Iwao,
[20:30] Nar
are yet to reach the
conclusion of their battle.
[20:34] Nar
This all happened on August 11th, 1965.
[20:45] Nar
And eventually, this battle will
be handed down as a legend.
SIGN 1999 Summer