QUOTE (franzoir @ Jul 20 2011, 03:01 PM) But now he is screwed, Im sure Kaiji must have atleast a plan b if they activated the block. The problem is I just dont see how he is going to get it through it. His plan relied on an early win, and they can tamper with the bog at a press of a switch, unless Kaiji has some magical epiphany, I dont see how he will get through. Maybe this is where Endoh and co come into it.
kaiji's throughful plan to beat the bog consists in 3 phases, telling by his "flashes of :
inspiration" after sakazaki's first defeat
1.- making the staff to tamper the bog's forest nails with modified tools for him, passing the first obstacle easily : when kaiji found a pachinko ball in sakazaki's pocket he went to retrieve 4000 yen worth a ball, making it seem to ichijou's casino staff that was why entered the restricted room but his true intention was to look inside while he sits near a drawer to smoke a cigarrette, noticing the tools to temper the pins, its schedule board and the vent above them, also there are no survillance cameras around... then ichijou gives him a night club vip card to go out and enjoy himself before returning to the underground but kaiji rips it and goes out the staff office distracting them again, after watching the vent he wonders if there is a room above the office, then searches the building and finds an empty room where later he and sakazaki will fish the tampering tools and change them to make the pachinko balls fall through the pins easily - as explained what we watched in this episode
2.- how to disable the second barrier's block if activated: after watching the bog for many hours and knowing how to beat the forest of pins kaiji returns to sakasaki's place but he isn't there, instead he finds the bog's copy destroyed by him and then realizes how the plates work... days later sakazaki tries the bog again and fails purposely, destroying the second barrier out of rage and distracts the staff with a fake dynamite while kaiji enters the monitoring room, making ichijou and his men believe he was after their secret safe - I think kaiji discovered how to turn off the sensors of the block and slow down the plates movement, probably he found out how the block works while checking inside the room and endou got some kind of remote controller, in case he notices the second barrier isn't letting though anymore pachinko balls he will push the button to switch it off... after all they are cheating with the block so fight fire with fire, just like happened with the fake dice in the chinchirorin arc
3.- how to beat the triple trays: kaiji goes back to the illegal casino to think about how to beat the triple trays, without any luck so he goes outside to literally cool off eating some flavored ice at a cafe and he hears the conversation of the owner and a customer complaing about why the building nearby is taking so long to be done, giving kaiji an unexpected realization and confirms what he just heard with the builder... he rushes to stop sakazaki from betting the rest of the money in races and then finds endou who is in debt as well, kaiji explains him how to beat the bog and win 700 mil yen and asks him to lend 50 mil for pachinko balls, 5 mil up front for prep and also manpower, in other words to let the 45s out from hell and help them - if kaiji needs 5 more men besides endou and sakazaki that means they'll participate in something big probably related with the building nearby, I think it has to do with the floor being shaken with some construction machine given the signal (when a ball enters the final tray), a cell phone comes handy in this one... sounds crazy but I can't think of any other possibilities