Inter-high
Day 3
This bath is so big and wonderful!
It is.
Really.
Good morning.
You're awake!
Did you see anything?
Yes. I remembered something about last year's inter-high tournament.
The matches?
No, something that happened after the tournament.
Kagoshima - Kirishima
One year ago
Great work at the inter-highschool tournament.
I saw the finals on TV.
Shame how it turned out.
There were so many strong players.
We couldn't win.
I had a lot of fun though, playing mahjong with everyone.
Next year, I'll be going, too!
What? Really?
Yeah!
I'll help so that you won't have to bear all of the burden again, like this year!
Is what you say, but aren't you just jealous?
That's obviously part of it, too.
But if that means we'll have another mahjong player,
that makes me very happy!
Next year, Haruru will be in high school, too.
Which means that next year, we from the branch family
get to form a team with the princess!
We're gonna go straight to the top at Nationals!
That was a year ago.
We've made it to the inter-high tournament again.
Today's day three.
So we'll go up against the teams that win today.
28 Makabi High (Okinawa) 29 Miyamori Girls' (Iwate) 30 Ihonosho High (Yamaguchi) 31 Tateyama Business School (Chiba)
I wonder who's going to win.
35 Kogasaki Business School (Fukui) 36 Karouto High (Hiroshima) 37 Hida Business School (Gifu) 38 Himematsu High (South Osaka) 39 Kuratsuki High (Ishikawa)
32 Nogomi High (Saga) 33 Kiyosumi High (Nagano) 34 Chiyomi High (Tottori) 35 Kogasaki Business School (Fukui)
I had the same feeling at our training camp,
but there's something sad about hanging school uniforms
in ryokan and hotel closets.
What are you mumbling about?
Okay, then!
Time for our first Nationals match!
Get up, get up!
That reminds me.
Are you okay with not seeing your sister,
even though we came all the way to Tokyo?
Yes.
She didn't really talk to me the last time we met, either.
But if it's mahjong...
If I meet her through mahjong, I feel like I could talk to her.
I suppose...
I looked at the pairings, and my sister's school
is in the other block.
So I can't go up against her
unless we make it to the finals.
That's why... they're all going down.
The Nationals
Hand 2: Support
Wow, it's so big,
I feel like I'll get lost again.
If you do, just make it back before the fifth players' match.
We ask our guests with small children
to please hold their child's hand at all times.
Saki!
Nonoka!
Good luck!
Destroy them!
Koromo-cha—
Koromo-san?
Haramura Nodoka.
If you lose, I'm making you my maid.
That's an ingenious scheme!
Um, no...
Noppo's school!
How did they arrive at "maid"?
All right.
We're going to the auditorium.
We await news of your victory!
Hisa.
Hey.
So, it's finally time.
Thanks for coming!
We're not the only ones cheering for you.
There's an event to screen Kiyosumi's matches
and cheer you all on,
at the hall where the preliminaries took place.
People have gathered to watch on the street screens and cheer you on, too
Wahaha. It's that "public viewing" thing.
Come on, don't make me nervous!
Oh, just a second.
Hmm, our student congress vice president said he'd only call if it was urgent...
Hey, what's up?
I'm going to be mad if this isn't urgent!
Um, well, actually...
Gimme that!
Good luck, Pres!
We're rooting for you!
Thanks.
Anyway, I sent you a URL by email.
Bye!
He's always so weird.
Did he send me student congress work even at a time like this?
All right.
We're heading to the auditorium.
Sorry that we couldn't really talk...
Good luck!
Good lucks!
Thank you!
Well then...
Wow, the green room is so huge!
They really have 12 of these?
It's bigger than our café.
This is nice.
All right!
Let's get right to it!
Kyoutarou, where are they?
These are my special tacos!
They're delicious!
You've gotten better!
I got some tips from someone who knows tacos well.
You mean a Mexican?!
No, remember at the prefectural preliminaries,
when you asked me to find tacos in the morning?
There was this guy who told me about a place close by.
I ran into him again this time in the lodge, somehow,
and he showed me how to make good tacos.
Looks like you found a good teacher!
He can do anything, really.
Oh, it's a video.
The thing from your vice president?
Yeah...
"Watch this together"?
I wonder if this will work.
Maybe it's some porn video!
Of course it isn't.
Oh, it worked.
It's the vice president!
Pres, you said that cheerleading teams and send-off parties
were not your thing.
But since you won the prefectural preliminaries,
the number of Kiyosumi Mahjong Club fans
among our students, parents, and teachers has been increasing...
Huh?
So today, we're using the school gym to hold a support event!
Take a look inside...
And now, I'd like to present you their messages of support.
There's so many people!
Good luck, Kataoka-san.
It's our homeroom teacher Sasahina!
You'll get one rice ball for each win.
And that's the lunch lady.
Good luck, everyone!
Muro's in the background!
Looks like the lolicon suspicions about our co-captain were founded.
I'll make you taco-ramen once you're back.
The ramen guy!
Back when I was a first year...
I was the only one in the club the entire year.
Mako came my second year, and for that year, it was the two of us.
And now, we have all these people.
And that's it for our support messages.
I'll call and send the email now.
I figure you won't see it unless I call.
This counts as an urgent message, right?
This makes me happy.
Yes.
It's not like we have a cheerleading group traveling with us
all the way to Tokyo, like they did for Kazekoshi.
Hang on.
You don't have to bring up Kazekoshi to hide your embarrassment.
Can't you just enjoy it?
You're right.
I'm grateful.
We've got to give it our best.
Yeah!
That's right.
We have done everything we can to prepare.
I'd like to thank you all for agreeing to this mixed training camp.
Welcome
Participants in the Kiyosumi High Mahjong Club Four Schools' Mixed Training Camp
I'm sure you're all tired from the trip,
so we'd like to make the rest of this day a free day.
Sounds good!
Saki!
Nonoka!
Koromo-san!
Let's play together!
Okay. What should we play?
Mahjong!
Let's play nonstop, day and night!
This is nice.
Sure is.
Ahh, this is divine.
Hey, you're from Kazekoshi.
I'm Yoshitome.
Yoshitome Miharu.
Nice job in the second players' match.
But I didn't do anything.
It was more the yakuman that Tsuruga girl got.
Yeah, that was a bummer.
I'd like some payback at some point.
Agreed.
Who are you?!
Ah, you're from Ryuumonbuchi.
Yeah.
This is perfect! Let's have a rematch!
Yoshitome-san...
Yes?
You're totally flat.
Harsh! You didn't have to compare!
Sorry. I couldn't help it.
So here's the bath, wahaha.
Another person with a flat chest!
It's bigger than I thought.
Speaking of...
We're all here.
You're my enemy in another area, too!
Huh?
She got another yakuman...
And my favorite yakuman, at that.
My deepest condolences.
What's wrong, Miharun?
Leave me alone, Kana-chan.
Ryuumonbuchi High School Team Members
Tomoki...
This is like a horror movie.
Touka?
I got lost!
Was Kazekoshi's room even on this floor?
We'll catch a chill if we don't get back soon.
Oh, I found Tsuruga's room!
But that's got nothing to do with it.
I'm coming in!
You're looking for Kazekoshi's room?
Sorry, but I don't know where the other schools' rooms are.
It's at the end of the hall of the floor below us.
By the emergency exit.
Thanks a lot!
Let's go, Bundou!
One moment please, Ikeda-senpai.
This!
You've got all the second edition star cards right here!
I collect pro mahjong player cards, too!
My second edition collection is still nowhere near complete, though!
This one!
So this is this year's Kokaji?
I want this card so bad.
Bundou?
If I get an extra, you can have it.
I have an extra Fujita.
I don't want her.
What was that?
Pro player Fujita!
Uh, I just meant
that I already have your card,
I meant nothing else...
And what are you doing here?!
You're Kajiki, right?
Do you have some time?
All they had were these huge yukatas...
Then why don't you change back into your old clothes?
No way!
Koromo is going to wear a yukata, like everyone else.
I want to match everyone else.
That reminds me.
I think there was a small yukata in the stuff Hagiyoshi had packed.
Really?!
He really is thorough.
Jun-kun! Koromo!
Kunihiro-kun, what's wrong?
Touka... Something's weird about Touka!
Huh? Isn't she always weird?
Yeah, but I don't mean that!
It's just like when we were up against East Tokyo at last year's inter-high.
She's like that!
Oh...
You mean she's in what you call the "Cold Touka" state.
Touka met a large number of formidable opponents today.
You're right.
Whenever she gets around a large number of strong players,
it changes her.
The thing that the boy who married into Ryuumonbuchi feared became reality.
If that means I get to play more unusual matches, Koromo is happy.
But I'm not happy.
And that's it!
Ron!
Richi and ippatsu only. 2,600!
I guess there's such a thing as a cheap ippatsu.
You can say stuff like that after you've beat me.
That's the spirit.
Please get stronger and stronger.
Tsumo!
Mentanpin, sanshoku, two dora!
[Mentanpin: menzen (closed hand) + tanyao + pinfu]
4,000 and 8,000.
I won't even look at the ura dora!
Right, because with that 8 han pinfu,
getting ura dora wouldn't change the points you get.
The ura dora is a freebie!
Annoyed
Just give me back 2,000 points.
I made some rice balls and sandwiches.
I'll have one.
It's good!
You've got a good captain.
A caring person who can play well and cook well.
You can't have her.
Saki, come play with Koromo!
Wow, that table looks pretty intense.
I sure don't want to join.
Then I think I'll join and play a serious game for the first time in a while.
Touka!
Pleased to play with you.
Kiyosumi?
Yeah.
Not Ryuumonbuchi?
It was Kiyosumi who beat Ryuumonbuchi.
East Tokyo Representative Rinkai Girls' - 3rd Year Megan Davin
That's too bad.
You seem oddly hung up on them.
East Tokyo Representative Rinkai Girls' - 3rd Year Tsujigaito Satoha
Yes.
I have regrets.
Last year, that one player suddenly
transformed in the middle of the game.
I redirected my attacks immediately
and knocked out Gappo Girls'.
You mean you ran away.
You're right.
Last year, I faltered.
Tsumo!
Ryuumonbuchi Touka!
Damn!
Ryuumonbuchi Touka Amae Koromo Fujita Yasuko Miyanaga Saki
I became afraid of her.
But this year...
This year...
I'll defeat her face-to-face!
Yeah.
Touka!
You're awake.
A dream?
It was all just a dream?
If you're talking about your winning streak against Koromo,
Kiyosumi, and the pros...
It wasn't a dream.
There was a person recording the tiles.
You fainted after the fourth match.
I was really worried.
That Touka was really something though, huh?
Even if she never had a flashy winning hand.
Even if it was still early,
her power over the tiles was stronger than
Koromo's and the rinshan user's.
During that entire time, the river of discards was calm and quiet.
Okami Water control
Water control...
But I prefer the normal side of her that dives in with high momentum
right at the crucial moments.
This... This is not me!
I reject it!
Touka...
This takes my style too far from Haramura Nodoka's!
That's your problem?
That's...
Speak of the devil. Takatoobara Middle School.
That's the middle school Haramura Nodoka went to.
So that's why...
It's got nothing to do with that!
Kiyosumi High School Team Members
Ryuumon-san was amazing.
I couldn't get a single kan in.
But that's normal.
Koromo-chan told me there were people at Nationals
who are good enough to knock out other players
even when she is in that state.
I'm so excited!
Come in.
Hello!
Hello.
Who's that?
I came!
Maho-chan!
It's the Muromaho Combo!
I went to the inter-middle school tournament with them.
They said they wanted to come observe this training camp.
I agreed to it.
It's more fun when things are lively.
Since they're already here, why don't we play a little?
Saki, Nodoka?
Sounds good.
Okay.
Thanks for letting us play!
It's increased.
Good luck.
The tacos are good.
Thank you.
These tacos take me back.
My idol, Nodoka-senpai, is right in front of me.
I guess it's been about four months since we've played together.
Is this tiny girl the one you talked about?
That's right.
This is the first time I've seen her in person.
You're here already?
Yeah.
What are those?
Tile records from last year's inter-middle school tournament.
Oh, you mean for those two girls who joined the club yesterday?
Yup.
There's lots of records for Haramura-san,
but for Kataoka-san there's only this one from the preliminary.
But there's one more interesting person at this middle school.
Ron!
18,000.
Youch.
An 18 hit right off the bat...
That's the power of tacos!
An expensive win right from the start...
That's just like Yuuki-chan!
Tacos are amazing.
It's finally her debut...
The star player of this camp has arrived!
Next Time
"Start"
Tokyo... What a terrifying city.
Not only do they have loads of Mexican restaurants,
but they also sell primo clothes here.
Primo? Is that like a taco?
Saki-san, she was talking about clothes...
Watch again!