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.
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