It was very possible that Anko was not even in tenpai yet.
Qingfeng sensed the changes in the game. Once he knew which tiles he could not discard, the match became much easier to play. He immediately switched to a fast-attack style, preparing to claim a small hand before Anko could win.
He would let her know what it meant that no matter how skilled you were, you still had to fear Pinfu.
Seeing Anko's tightly furrowed brow, he knew she had called too many tiles. There were not many tiles left that could complete her hand, and quite a few of her winning tiles had already been exhausted.
When making a Full Flush, some novices somehow managed to put themselves into a Riichi Ready Hand.
The first kind of Riichi Ready Hand was when there was no yak, making it impossible to win.
The second was when, for one reason or another, they had discarded their final winning tile before reaching the win, making it impossible to win.
That was an extremely awkward situation to imagine.
Uchiha Qingfeng laid his discarded hand sideways, placed one thousand points on the table, and declared, "Riichi."
Itachi walked behind Qingfeng and looked at his hand.
He was waiting on 2, 5, and 8 bamboo in a three-sided wait. He had no circles or characters in hand, so it was clearly a Half Flush. Moreover, it was not an Open Meld hand. Even a Half Flush alone guaranteed three han, and with Dora and the Riichi bonus, the value would certainly not be low if he won.
This required an explanation of Open Melds. For hands such as Half Flush and Full Flush, calling chi, pon, or kan directly reduced the hand by one han.
For example, Half Flush was a three-han hand.