The first day in the prefectural qualifiers individual tournament will begin shortly.
Saki-chan!
What are you spacin' out for?
You'll get separated from us again!
Sorry!
I was just thinking that there were a ton of people here.
That's 'cause students can participate in this even if they couldn't enter the team tournament.
It seems like it will be difficult to end up the winner against so many people.
Mow them all down!
Okay, attention please!
Today and tomorrow is the individual tournament.
Only three people get to go to the nationals.
Even if we all keep winning, it's impossible for all of us to be selected.
We might even end up battling against ourselves.
Win or lose, leave no regrets behind and give it all you got!
Right!
Right...
That's right... All of us can't be selected...
Hand 21
Looking Back
This is the list for the first round.
Um... Which room am I playing in?
So I'm in room B?
I am in E.
And I'm in G.
Um... I'm... There I am!
Room P?
I'm Q! Right next to you, Saki-chan!
Looks like it.
The two of you are on the complete opposite side from here.
You'd better hurry and get going.
Right!
Yuuki, Miyanaga-san, good luck!
Leave it to us!
Let's go, Saki-chan!
W-Wait!
Saki's such a dolt when she's not playing mahjong.
With the team tournament over, I wish she'd kept up her fighting spirit...
Aren't you talking about yourself?
Oh? You'd better be on your toes, or else...
Miyanaga-san...
We made it!
Safe, safe!
Thank goodness.
Yuuki-chan, what's in the bag?
These are provisions.
Is that all tacos?
I've got a long haul today.
I can't fight on if I run out of tacos!
Saki-chan, you want one?
No, I'm not hungry yet.
Will participants please hurry and enter their assigned rooms.
Let's go!
Yeah. Good luck!
Tacos are delicious!
Continuing on from last week's team tournament,
this week we have the prefectural qualifier individual tournament.
Pro Fujita, thank you for bringing us your commentary.
No prob.
The first day is a segmented tournament where the prefecture is split into North and South.
The people with the top scores over 20 tonpuusen games continue on to tomorrow's final.
Only the top 3 from the finals will be chosen as this prefecture's representatives in the nationals!
Only the chosen get to go to the nationals.
How fitting for someone like I!
In this room, you can see Ryuumonbuchi Touka.
Last year she won the individuals and qualified for the nationals.
She might be the one to beat!
So Amae Koromo didn't show up?
It's the beginning of the first game!
It's the middle school champion, Haramura Nodoka!
She's from the school which is going to the nationals that beat Kazekoshi and Ryuumonbuchi, Kiyosumi!
We can't let her run away with it!
So the three of them are aiming for me?
However I will not back down.
Riichi!
So fast!
Tsumo!
Riichi, ippatsu tsumo tanyao. 2000 / 3900.
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Room G
Guess we can't help but to have a target on our backs after the team tournament.
Tsumo! Concealed honitsu, red dora, 4000 from each of you!
Well, guess that just makes this more interesting!
If I'm being targeted so tightly...
Riichi!
I'll just turn that to my advantage!
She's the one that does those bad waits.
In that case...
Ron!
Riichi, ippatsu, tanyao, dora 1. 8000.
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Room Q
Tsumo!
Riichi, ippatsu, tsumo, sanshoku, dora 1, 6000 from each of you!
With all the tonpuusen games, it's like a bonus stage for me!
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Room P
Is this person really Kiyosumi's captain?
She doesn't seem powerful at all...
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Individuals North Group Playing Area
Just you wait, Haramura Nodoka!
I will battle with you once again, and I will be going to the nationals!
Three in a set... Three in a set...
This is that newbie from earlier.
You won't be able to do to me what you did to Tomoki.
Tsumo!
Iipeikou, 500/1000!
Um... Two in a pair... Two in a pair...
So she's going for a chitoitsu this time?
You don't have the time to for such a hand.
Ron! Tanyao, dora 1, 2600!
Okay...
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East 3rd Round
What a one-sided game for me!
I'll finish you off right now with this hand!
Riichi!
Um...
She's counting again?
Wait, she's not doing them in threes this time, she's just lining them up normally...
Eight, nine, ten...
Wait, one each?!
I... can't believe this...
T-That one!
I win!
Ko-Kokushi Musou?!
Tsuruga Academy's Senou Kaori wins with a Yakuman! Kokushi Musou!
And the one who played into it was, incredibly, Ryuumonbuchi Touka!
The one that everyone should be trying to beat, you say?
I can't believe this...
Ron!
Tsumo!
Ron!
Nobody can stop me!
The eighth game has finished.
The tournament will resume after lunch.
T-Touka...
Can't believe you gave up a yakuman, Touka.
How much more useless could you be, indeed.
It was just an opponent you were completely incompatible with.
Compatible?
Cheer up, Touka!
You're gonna beat Haramura Nodoka and go to Tokyo, right?
That's right!
Someone like I has no business losing at a time like this!
Just you wait, Haramura Nodoka!
We will decide, once and for all, loud and clear, who the true idol is between us!
Mutsuki, are you feeling okay?
The first opponent I played was kind of strange.
Strange?
At first she didn't make a move, but next thing I knew,
it was the South Wind and I kept getting hit.
Ron.
12 000.
After that, I never really recovered.
So after it became South it was like a sudden death race to break 30 000 points?
Even so, that's quite odd.
I'll try to make a comeback this afternoon.
So everyone else do your best, too!
That's the spirit, that's the spirit!
Kana, Yoshitome-san, you're doing well.
Bundou-san, Fukabori-san, and Yumeno-san, you should be fine at this current pace.
Oosako-san and Asai-san... I think you might just barely be okay, but try to do better in the second half.
Captain, please stop only worrying about us.
Pay a little more attention to yourself.
I'm Kazekoshi's captain, and...
We realize you're in a safe zone, but we all want to see you go to the nationals, Captain!
Please!
Captain, make sure you go to the nationals!
Thank you...
Everyone really did great.
Guess we managed.
The pressure, from the other players aiming for you, was tough.
It was more difficult than I had thought.
Yeah...
It seems like you were going full steam, Yuuki.
I am the Thunder of the east round!
As long as we keep playing tonpuusen, I cannot be defeated!
I'm keeping up my winning streak through the rest of today!
Oh, everyone is so nice and cheerful...
Kyou-chan!
Suga-kun?
Weren't you in the boy's individual tournament today?
I lost.
You lost? But it lasts all day, doesn't it?
There were so many boys, so there were eliminations in the morning.
I'm rarin' to go!
This'll be a cinch!
Ron! 12 000!
Tsumo! 4000 / 8000!
Tsumo! 6000 / 12 000!
Guess there were a lot of participants in the boys' tournament.
I am so sorry!
I dirtied the good name of Kiyosumi!
Want a taco?
Yuuki...
How about this?
Here.
Kyou-chan, cheer up!
Just do your best next year, eh?
Everyone!
We're all in this together, right?
You have nothing to be embarrassed about, Suga-kun.
Club president!
We'll be counting on you to go buy snacks for this afternoon, okay?
And I'll count on you to keep me supplied with tacos!
Count on me!
The second half begins now.
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Game 11
Tsumo!
Game 12
Ron!
Game 13
Tsumo!
Game 14
Ron!
Game 15
Full steam ahead!
Kataoka Yuuki
Fukuji Mihoko
Takei Hisa
Haramura Nodoka
Ikeda Kana
Yoshitome Miharu
And that's the end of the 19th game.
All that's left is one final game.
The players are heading to their last game rooms.
Kazekoshi's...
Kiyosumi's...
Ueno-san!
So our club president is up against...
That's the super pretty captain from Kazekoshi!
I can't find the words...
I wanted to see her again for so long, and yet...
But now, when I finally have, I can't find the words.
And she doesn't even remember me.
Go ahead and draw.
North.
Next to me.
Right.
It's the start of the final game in the first day's tournament.
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Kazekoshi All-Girls 3rd Year Fukuji Mihoko
Representing their schools are Kazekoshi's Fukuji and Kiyosumi's Takei.
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Toufukuji High School 3rd Year Nagamori Kazuko
Both captains of teams that made it to the finals in the team tournament.
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Imamiya All-girls 1st Year Douyama Yukari
Neither side will lose...
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Kiyosumi High School 3rd Year Takei Hisa
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East 1st Round Dealer Fukuji Mihoko
Takei is now in tenpai by drawing the dora!
So I drew the 3 sou now...
In that case...
Riichi!
What is Kiyosumi's Takei doing?
She threw away her three-way wait on the 3 6 9 sou, and is going for a single wait on the 1 sou!
And there's 2 of them on the table already.
It's a hell wait.
Calm down.
Tsumo!
Riichi, ippatsu, tsumo, dora 2, 2000 / 4000!
Kiyosumi's Takei has drawn first blood with a mangan.
Nagamori and Douyama were guarding against the 3 6 9 sou.
I guess it was the correct move in the end.
That's a very Ueno-san-like wait.
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East 2nd Round Dealer Nagamori Kazuko
Riichi!
Why did she discard the red 5 man and declare riichi?
The discards from the opponent across from me are the 8 man, 6 pin and then the red 5 man.
Then she threw in a riichi.
Doesn't seem like she's got an edge wait, so this'll probably get by.
Ron!
Riichi, ippatsu, tanyao, sanshoku, dora 1.
12 000.
Our club president is doing fine.
That way she plays... Purposefully discarding the red 5 man to lure out the winning tile.
She hasn't changed. She's still the same as the Ueno-san I played before.
Now, the player everyone is focused on, overall leader Kataoka Yuuki in room J!
Ron! 3200 with one bonus is 3500!
I win again!
Kiyosumi's Kataoka blazes on through with another first place finish!
Tsumo. 1300 / 2600.
Kiyosumi's Haramura also makes it through!
Ron! 8000, yeah!
Ron. 12 000.
[South]
Ron. 3900 with one bonus is 4200.
Right...
Kazekoshi's Yoshitome and Kiyosumi's Miyanaga end up first and second.
Both of them move on to the final selection.
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Bonus 2 Dealer Takei Hisa East 4th Round
And it's finally the last round for room C!
Guess that backfired, but in this case...
Kiyosumi's Takei takes a center wait inside wait on the 8 pin instead of the 2 sided wait.
She's settled on a sanshoku for the time being, but...
But what's this? Kazekoshi's Fukuji to her right
is in tenpai waiting for the same 8 pin!
And she draws the 6 pin!
Now the 8 man is unnecessary!
At this rate I won't be able to win.
But even if I lose to Ueno-san here, I can move on to the final selection.
Captain!
Captain, please win and go to the nationals!
What am I thinking?
I'll never be able to come out on top in tomorrow's finals thinking like that!
I'll win! As the captain of Kazekoshi...
Her sanshoku is still alive! If it's Ueno-san, then she is waiting on the 8 pin!
Fukuji stops the 8 pin right here!
I always thought I wanted to see you and talk to you.
That I had so much I wanted to tell you.
She stopped me?
In that case...
I always thought I wanted to talk with you, hear your stories.
I wanted to hear your voice once again!
You're...
Riichi!
Kazekoshi's Fukuji declares a furiten riichi!
But I've already begun walking a different path!
I...
Tsumo!
Riichi, ippatsu, tsumo, tanyao, pinfu, iipeikou, dora 4!
4200 / 8200!
Kazekoshi's Fukuji makes a comeback win with a baiman tsumo!
I played against you once, a long time ago, didn't I?
It was the tournament three years ago, you might not remember.
Your eyes are so pretty, I wonder why I had forgotten?
I remember. It's really been three years already, hasn't it?
Yeah.
It seemed like an eternity.
Thank you very much for today.
We'll see each other again.
Did you forget? We'll both be playing tomorrow.
Both Fukuji and Takei move on to the finals from room C.
Wow, everyone made it to the final selection! Congratulations!
Congratulations...
Club president?
We have here the player who won 14 out of the 20 games in the first day of the individual tournament!
Kiyosumi High School's first year, and overall leader of the individuals, Kataoka Yuuki!
I suppose this was sufficient.
Sufficient, eh?
So, what do you hope for tomorrow?
I'm gonna blow everyone away tomorrow!
Awesome, Yuuki-chan!
She's sure full of energy.
It's not like she's won the nationals already...
I'm embarrassed as her friend.
It's fine. She really did do amazing.
Then, a word for the people you'll be up against tomorrow?
I have but one thing to say to those on my tail...
And that is...
Come at me with everyone you got!
Next Episode
Promises
At night I'm petrified sometimes...
I can't move my body, but I feel I can open my eyes...
And when I open my eyes with all my might...
Enough!
I can get like that, too.
Thinking one day, I'll be playing mahjong and a lukewarm south wind will blow in...
I do not believe in such superstitions!