Legendary Gambler Tetsuya Chapter 2

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Sorry this took so long… I took my sweet time translating it, and to top it off, our typesetter, Kazuhiko, fell of the face of the internet for a period of time. Please enjoy Legendary Gambler Tetsuya Chapter 2, compliments of MahjongKrazy. Cleaned by the photoshop wizard, Mr. Crump Biggums, typeset by the man who rocks the fonts, Kazuhiko, and translated by yours truly. Honorable mention to Sonickrazy for translation assistance on a couple complicated lines, even while he had better things to do! 

-Spoilers Below-

Tetsuya’s Law #1, Conservation of Luck: Luck cannot be created nor destroyed.   

:P 

Let’s talk luck. At this point, Tetsuya seems to believe that luck is a force which can be gained or lost. He believes the flow of luck can be manipulated, by cheating, or by grasping “the flow.” Most of this is reasonable. Sometimes you’re lucky, and sometimes you’re unlucky. Sometimes you can bend the rules and get away with it; a simple “method of winning.” But, what is the flow? 

“As I figured, I'm already in 1 shan ten. I've got the flow, after all.”

Do the lucky tend to remain lucky? Or does it simply come down to coincidence?

Clearly the latter, I think we all can agree. I don’t believe in, as lapetus refers to it, “occult nonsense.” But I can speak for most mahjong players when I say that I’ve noticed on many, many occasions that my luck has either been perpetually bad or perpetually good for an entire game. It’s still coincidence, but… could we label that sensation of perpetual luck, or lack thereof, “the flow”? Most of us are non-believers, so just to kind of make sense of Tetsuya’s current view of luck, you can choose to see it the way I see it, or in any way you see fit. 

But… come on, conservation of luck? I can’t wait until Tetsuya meets Boshu so he can get these ideas out of his head.  Tetsuya’s still a kid at this point, so that’s something to consider.