Saki

After making it through the fierce regional preliminaries, the Kiyosumi High Mahjong Club makes its way to the Nationals. In rapid succession, the representative schools for the other regions are decided as well and the powerful players make their way to the battleground.

After the matchups are all settled, Saki realized that she won't be able to play against her older sister unless she makes it to the finals. Driven by her desire to face Teru, she vows again to make it to the finals.

The one who Hisa had dubbed the ""Star of the camp"" is Yumeno Maho. Saki is awed as Maho shows off her ability to copy the play style of all of the players of the Kiyosumi mahjong club.

Thanks to Hisa's great performance, Kiyosumi's mahjong club makes it through the first round without Nodoka or Saki having to play at all.

Even after Miyamori's Kosegawa Shiromi scores a haneman tsumo win, Yuuki continues to drive the first player match in a favorable direction.

Despite putting up a good fight, Kiyosumi High's mahjong club ends up in third place behind Miyamori's Kosegawa Shiromi and Eisui's Jindai Komaki. Miyamori's Aislinn had shown overwhelming performances at the regional tournaments, so naturally all eyes were on her.

Enjoying the national stage, enjoying mahjong... Faced with her opponents, Hisa remembers that those are the important things and gets back into gear. However, she can't overtake Hiroe Atago, who had widened her lead in the first half of the 3rd player match, and Hisa ends in 2nd place.

In the first half of the 4th player match, Nodoka completely finds her own style. The strongest emotion controlling her is that ""Losing means we're going to be scattered all over"".

Miyamori Girls' High School' s Usuzawa Sae completely blocks off Usuzumi Hatsumi. However, holding Hatsumi down every time she was the north player takes a heavy toll on Sae's body.

The 2nd round of the National Tournament is coming to a close. Himematsu High School's Suehara Kyouko bold playing style of declaring riichi after riichi backfires as she always ends up dealing into Miyamori Girls' High School's Anetai Toyone's chasing riichi hand.

Iwato Kasumi from Eisui Girls' High School changes into her 'offensive' mode after realizing that defense alone won't cut it. Kasumi's onslaught turns the tide completely. Himematsu High School entered the 5th player match in first place, but is now in last place.

The 5th player match has finally progressed into the all-deciding south round. This is where Saki does something she's never done before: declaring a kan to then discard the tile she gets right away.

The second round was absolutely grueling, with every school never letting up. Still, thanks to Saki's performance, Kiyosumi moves on to the semi-finals. After finding ""Achiga Girls'"" on the pamphlet, Nodoka asks Saki to come to the arena with her, but just outside, Saki has to stop for a moment.