Wan! Chapter 27

If You Tell a Hundred Thoughts (百の思いを告げたなら,) is the 27th chapter of the Bungo Stray Dogs Wan! manga.

Summary
Mori talks about the game Hyakumonogatari or One Hundred Tales, in which people light a hundred candles and tell horror stories, after which a candle is extinguished every after story. Once all candles are put out, it is said that a dreadful thing shall occur. Atsushi then invites Dazai, Kyōka, and Kunikida to play Hyakumonogatari. Kunikida refuses to play along, causing Dazai to tease him of being scared. Kunikida then decides to prove him wrong and tells the first tale.

Kunikida tells of a day when he had fever and kept getting ominous chills, as if being cursed. As time went on, his fever worsened until he got stuck with an important work and wished to go home. He then extinguishes a candle and claims how frightening it was that he, of all people, was on the verge of ignoring his schedule and go home to sleep.

Dazai thinks how bad Kunikida's story was, so he proceeds to tell his story. The other day, Dazai woke up with a heavy head out of drinking overnight. As he was late for work, he threw on his clothes and dragged himself down to the Agency. As he arrived at the office, he realized he had merely woken up. Dazai then puts out the candle fire, claiming how frightening it was to go to such lengths only to figure out he was still in bed.

Atsushi then asks Kyōka for her story, with which she tells how she was recently organizing some documents; the papers then slipped under her fingernails, causing blood to gush out. She continues that, the other day, she was eating a very hard meat, causing her to accidentally bite her tongue. Kunikida and the others then chide her for not telling actual horror stories.

In the end, Atsushi is urged to tell his story. He tells them of the day when he was being punished at the orphanage and noticed someone watching him from inside a cupboard. He thought that it was some fellow kid watching him for quite some time, until he realized that no human could possibly fit in the cupboard. Atsushi then jests that he was merely joking with his tale, only to find his fellow members quivering and visibly frightened.