The Hundredth Heartbeat
Every night at 11:11, a woman on the seawall counts her heartbeats aloud, and whoever is beside her at the hundredth must answer one question. You've walked past her nineteen times. Tonight you sit down.
- 3chapters + ending
- ~11min
- 2endings
- 4memories
- 0plays
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About this story
Every night at 11:11, a woman on the seawall counts her heartbeats aloud, and whoever is beside her at the hundredth must answer one question. You've walked past her nineteen times. Tonight you sit down.
- Format
- Short
- Screen
- Portrait
- Story language
- English
- Length
- 3 chapters + ending · about 11 min
- Status
- Complete
- Published
- Oct 9, 2026
- Updated
- Oct 13, 2026
Scenes
Places from the first chapter
Chapters
Complete · 3 chapters plus an ending
- 01The Twentieth NightYour shift ends at 10:50 and you walk the harbor promenade home, as you have for nineteen…
- 02The Vending Machine on the Third FloorThe next night Kubo sends you to the third floor to restock the linen cart, and you find…
- 03The Hundredth HeartbeatFestival night.
- EndingDecided by the choices you make
Characters
Who you’ll meet
- Mio Serizawathe woman on the seawallWarm, dry-humored, and disarmingly blunt — she asks strangers enormous questions and laughs off her own answers.Talk
- Kubothe night porter's senior partnerA veteran hospital porter who has worked the third floor for thirty years and treats the corridor like his own living room.Talk
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Endings
Same story, different endings
- Ending 1An ending you haven’t found
Someone who says the true thing where the lantern light can hear it.
- Ending 2An ending you haven’t found
Someone who tells the truth they owe, and comes back anyway.
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