11 - 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.
SIGN    Episode 11
SIGN    The Foundation for Despair
[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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