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This is a cryptic story!
When I go to the bathroom in the middle of night I don't turn on the lights, afraid that the brightness would make it hard to get back to sleep again. I've done it so many times that even in the pitch dark I can easily find my way. Often while in the dark I imagine what sort of things would scare me in a situation like this. For example, I imagine a pale face suddenly appearing out of the darkness. Yesterday too, I was thinking that wouldn't it be funny if I saw a long-haired woman hanging upside-down from the ceiling, and in my dopey state I fancied I actually saw such a figure and that scared me, but it was probably all just my wild imagination.
However, it was right then that it went clank! and a sudden pain shot through my toe that I became breathless. It seemed my toe hit on something hard. Then I remembered that I had left a box of fruits, sent by my family, lying about on the floor. I managed to go to the bathroom, but even after I got back to bed the pain kept me wide awake. Next morning my neighbour said he heard a scream come from my place in the middle of the night. It must have been when I hit my toe on the box. I apologized to him. I was stupid not have turned on the lights. All my laziness got me was a pain, a sleepless night, and a proof to the neighbour that I'm a dumbass, screaming like a bitch in the middle of the night....
This is a cryptic story!
When I go to the bathroom in the middle of night I don't turn on the lights, afraid that the brightness would make it hard to get back to sleep again. I've done it so many times that even in the pitch dark I can easily find my way. Often while in the dark I imagine what sort of things would scare me in a situation like this. For example, I imagine a pale face suddenly appearing out of the darkness. Yesterday too, I was thinking that wouldn't it be funny if I saw a long-haired woman hanging upside-down from the ceiling, and in my dopey state I fancied I actually saw such a figure and that scared me, but it was probably all just my wild imagination.
However, it was right then that it went clank! and a sudden pain shot through my toe that I became breathless. It seemed my toe hit on something hard. Then I remembered that I had left a box of fruits, sent by my family, lying about on the floor. I managed to go to the bathroom, but even after I got back to bed the pain kept me wide awake. Next morning my neighbour said he heard a scream come from my place in the middle of the night. It must have been when I hit my toe on the box. I apologized to him. I was stupid not have turned on the lights. All my laziness got me was a pain, a sleepless night, and a proof to the neighbour that I'm a dumbass, screaming like a bitch in the middle of the night....
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that explains the scream too....
this explanation is kind of funny, but that's the only thing i can think of right now. :/
yea maybe next time he/she should've turned on the light
Idk tho, I've never been good at these
Keep 'em coming. <3
The narrator probably accidentally kicked a ghost and that was the ghost's scream in pain :p haha
Good one, Saya-san. I love your crytic stories. Awesome brain teasers.
That night while she was doing it again, head first, she slipped and hit her head on hit the floor (Clank!). She screamed with pain at the same time.
Having noticed the author was infront of her, she then immediately bit the author's toe (sharp pain) so he wouldn't switch on the lights and check (and found out she was in his apartment). That's why the pain was so bad that the author was kept awake throughout the night lol!
P.S: Who knows the neighbour could be that woman-hanging-from-the-ceiling? She asked about the heard scream so as to try to divert the author's suspicions on what had exactly happened that night =P
The fact that he was breathless after stubbing his toe rather than letting out sound shows that he surely is not the culprit.
So it does seem reasonable to assume that if there was a scream in the night and aside from himself the author fancies he saw a long haired woman, It would have to be her or whatever figure he sense in the dark surely.
I'm not entirely sure what he hit his toe on or what the clank was. To me Clank is the sound of metal being struck so I doubt someone would us a metal box to give full of fruit. What else could it have been though since he is very accustomed to his space and would more than likely not run into usual things.
How did the neighbour hear the scream but not the author who was kept up by the pain?
My guess is there was a stranger living in the house who escaped after being kicked. During the escape, she howled in pain while passing the neighbour's house.
I dunno, that's what I think xD
You all are portraying the author to be innocent.
He says he always turns on the light... Yet the light was off? He couldn't see what he hit his toe on?
Something isn't right... I feel as if the author has done much worse than he puts on.
He may have hit a weapon or a chair that may have had a hostage/kidnapped individual of sorts on it, hence the scream. Why would he mention the scream when he, of course, doesn't want to get caught.
Which is why he made the excuse that he stubbed his toe. Either convincing himself that he "didn't do such a horrible deed" or to help make it believable when he told the neighbor what had happened.
Fruits come in cardboard or wood. Clank would be a metal sound or maybe a chair falling.
I honestly think he has paranoia due to his constant horrible deeds.
in a story, ghost can feel pain/getting kicked :P
@misa you think too hard on the story haha ... i don't think it's that complicated > <
I think they're all viable and interesting theories :)
well, since misa stated in her first sentence that 'I think you are all going about this wrong.' so i assume i can have my opinion on her theories as well? no? :/
I don't mean to be mean, but yeah, in MY opinion, some theories may be interesting, maybe possible? but too complicated ^_^
hope the answer can be reveal soon~
Dispedia was AGREEING with you. No need to defend yourself against people who AGREE with your opinions.
i made a mistake, it should be @Alysia Liao.
i guess perhaps that's you(?)..so yeah, sorry because i @ the wrong person, i am definitely not defending myself against you who agree with me. thanks.
Anonymous @ 4:58 isn't me.
I wasn't really specifying about Misa's theory or his/her comment about people being wrong, but rather everybody else's theories. Since it is a cryptic story, you're supposed to think (too) hard, especially if you can't get it the first time you think about it by making deductions :) But I understand, it's your opinion and you weren't trying to be malicious ^-^
We are all friends in thought so let's continue to work together to uncover our own answers.
That's what I've been wondering; why he didn't hear it. And that made me think that maybe a) the lady made him black out- maybe she possessed him for a moment, short enough to leave him standing- and as he did so he screamed. Then gaining consciousness, he was breathless from doing so and didn't remember
or b), the neighbour was in his apartment (whether or not they were on the roof) and forgot whether or not he yelled when they made their alibi of being at home as it happened.
or c) it was an otherworldly shriek that the man couldn't perceive.