21 - 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
SIGN    A Ray of Illusion
[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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