On the eve of their next battle, EX Furinkazan, via their Twitter account, issued a challenge to Konami Mahjong Fight Club.
Roughly translated it reads:
“By chance,
yesterday,
in the waiting room
while considering our strategy
suddenly,
we thought,
everyone is expecting Rumi and Aki!
So we asked
their thoughts
and they were
raring to go
Will we
be able to have
a head on fight?”
However, if one were to read the tweet vertically, taking only the first character from each line, a different message becomes apparent.
“Shall we have a match between TakiHisa and RumiAki?”
TakiHisa referring to Takizawa Kazunori, and Hisa referring to Sasaki Hisato, both Konami players. On top of that the “TakiHisa” combination is actually common nickname used to refer to the pair who are quite close friends even outside of M-League and regularly get up to hijinks. RumiAki is a bit easier to decipher, referring to the Nikaido sisters from EX Furinkazan.
The Response
Konami, not ones to take this lying down, responded in kind, with their own tweet.
The message read horizontally reads:
“In such a short time we have,
received many proposals from many families
Surely we are blessed.
They are strong opponents.
We would like to go against them, truly
Give us some time to think about it.”
However, as expected, when read vertically, we get a different message.
“We will crush the opposition!”
A Pirate wades into the fray
Not wanting to be left out of the fun, Ishibashi from U-Next Pirates, decided to join in the fun… sort of.
Not wanting to bother with the fancy poetic message to hide the true meaning, he just responds with a vertical message.
“Come at me, TakiHisa and RumiAki!”
Will these battles play out tomorrow when the teams meet? We’ll have to wait and see, but from some of the replies, it does seem to be a popular setup, with many people wanting to see it happen.
This isn’t even the first time EX Furinkazan and Konami have exchanged challenges in this way. During last season, the teams attempted to match up Takizawa (who was playing for EX Furinkazan at the time) and Sasaki in a match, early in the new year.
At that time, both teams did field their respective players, however, both had a hard time dealing with the Akasaka Drivens supremacy on the day.
How will things play out this time? Will we see TakiHisa or RumiAki triumph? Will Ishibashi take all the glory? Or will Team Raiden’s members play spoiler and run away with everything? Tune in tomorrow to find out!
Addendum
As I was writing this, the official M-League twitter account tweeted out an expectant image for tomorrow, with the message:
“It looks like we might see RumiAki and TakiHisa! I’m looking forward to it!”
So we might actually see these matchups happen!
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