7 - 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.
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