12 - 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
SIGN    The Magic of Coincidence
[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."
SIGN    Next Episode
SIGN    The Path of the Storm