## Chapter 1672 – Excerpt From a Black-Haired Foreigner – Celestial Demon Constellation

Well then, let’s begin the observation.

—Flash.

As I brought up a window right in front of me, I could see Maharn’s appearance after falling into the new hell I created.

“Ah ah?”

Maharn, standing there blankly, looking around… I can’t help but laugh.

“Kuh… Hehehe!”

Laughter leaked out!

No lie, it was so funny I felt like I was going to die! Ah, damn! I should have done this sooner! To think I created something like this, I’m truly a genius of creativity!

I gripped my pounding heart and focused on the screen connected to my hell.

“Where exactly is this?”

Maharn, his whole body tattered, muttered to himself as he looked up at the sky.

“Keeheeheeheet.”

He was even laughing, not even grasping the situation. Anyway, the sky is just dark. There’s nothing to see in the sky.

“Keeheet, keeheeheet…?”

What to see is on the ground.

“What are these?”

Suddenly, Maharn looked around himself.

“What on earth are these…? Keeheet.”

Around Maharn. No.

The entire space.

The countless lids covering the earth.

“What kind of lids could they be…? Keeheet.”

That’s right.

Maharn was standing blankly amidst those infinite lids.

In this hell.

What exists in the ‘Bogeyman’s Collection Room’ is.

Only the infinite earth and the empty sky. And the black lids placed densely on the ground.

“Ah, but what exactly happened to me! Suddenly dropping into a space like this! Hmm! It’s a mystery!”

Before I knew it, Maharn, having regenerated his clown costume and mask, crossed his arms, tapping the ground with the tip of one foot, and tilted his head.

Of course, regeneration is only possible because I allowed it.

And he’s not grasping his situation well right now, because his memories got muddled as soon as he entered.

When you enter this hell.

You question why you came here.

And soon… you’ll suffer a ‘horrible thing’.

“Ladies and gentlemen! Anyway, let’s start exploring! Keeheeheeheet! By this Maharn, that is!”

Ah, damn it!

“This sucks!”

I really can’t listen to his monologues anymore!

The way this bastard talks is so annoying!

I can’t take it anymore!

“Bogeyman, 투이이이이입!”

—Flash!

The moment I exerted my power!

—Kugung!

Hell shook!

“Aah!”

Maharn, startled.

In front of that guy.

—Dudung.

“Krrr…”
“O-oh?”

The form of a giant more massive than a mountain appears.

“Keeheeheeheet! What on earth is this giant!!!!”

A grotesquely protruding eyeball. There’s no white in that eyeball. Only black exists. On top of that, a long nose like that of a cursed witch and an enormous amount of beard. An absurdly muscular body.

“Krrrrrr!!!”

What spews out of that mouth is an evil, cursed wail. The earth shakes, and a massive wave erupts.

The old man, with a sack on his back, held a giant stainless steel tong.

“The Bogeyman takes away children who don’t listen!!! Kuaaaaa!!!”

The Bogeyman, in the form of a demon, saw his prey and shouted like lightning!

—Hwaaaaaak!

A fierce storm raged, and Maharn flew away.

Of course, he is a messenger of God. Though he may have been surprised by the giant, he must have judged that he could handle it.

“Keeheeheeheet! What an interesting giant! I’ll have him appear in my performance! A murderous performance, at that!!!”

He took out a weapon with a bizarre blade from his chest and struck a fighting pose.

—Flash!

At the same time that a spotlight shone on him.

—Swaaaaaaak!

“The Bogeyman takes away children who don’t listen!!!”

The stainless steel tongs flew in.

—Thwack!

“Eungak?!”

Maharn was caught just like that.

“Heeheeheeheeheehee.”

A chilling laughter erupted. The Bogeyman. Is an entity that catches bad children with tongs. Naturally, when he captures prey with tongs… he rejoices greatly.

“Caught you, caught you. I caught a child who doesn’t listen. Gotta put you in. Gotta put you in. Gotta put you in my hole.”

Singing happily, he bent over and picked up one of the lids on the ground.

—Drrr.

As such, a very narrow hole hidden by the lid was revealed.

“W-what! I can’t escape! Keeheeheeheet!”

Maharn struggled, but once caught by the Bogeyman, there was no escape. He never lets go. The entity that is the Bogeyman. Once you’re caught by him, you can never escape.

Like that.

—Swoosh.

The Bogeyman shoved Maharn into the hole.

“This is…!”

A very narrow hole that seemed to be perfectly tailored to Maharn’s body. Maharn, forced in and curled up like a fetus, finally grasped the situation and screamed.

“Stop! Stop it! Get me out of here right now—”
“Heeheeheeheeheeheeheeheehee.”

With that scream and ominous laughter as the end.

—Kukung!!!

The Bogeyman closed the lid.

“Hwahahahahahahahahahahaha!”

Watching that, laughter burst out!

“Truly delightful!”

In fact, the Bogeyman is only terrifying to the person suffering, but to the person observing, he’s just like a super fun neighborhood idiot.

“Then disappear now! Bogeyman!”
“Ugh.”

—Sararak.

At my command, the Bogeyman disappeared like a mirage, and all the sounds that had been echoing disappeared, and extreme silence descended.

If you’re trapped in that hole, you can’t even interact with the outside. You’re just trapped there forever. Unable to move, trapped forever.

“He’s trapped!”

Lisperia, who was watching from the side, shouted.

“If you go in there, your sense of time gets distorted. Even if you’re only in there for 1 minute, it feels like 3 days, or it feels like almost a week has passed, but only 2 minutes have passed.”

In that distorted sense of time.

Maharn will suffer endlessly. Trapped in the delusion that he can never get out of a space he can never move in, screaming.

“Hwahahahahahahahaha!”

In my childhood.

A sinister legend that had spread in the countryside where I lived.

The children caught by the Bogeyman can never return. They are trapped in a very narrow hole, and a lid of over a thousand pounds of iron is placed on top, forever. Living forever in that honeycomb-like hole.

The Bogeyman would look at the child in that state and laugh with satisfaction.

Thus, the children went from being unfilial to filial. Because no one wanted to go into such a hole.

The children, who firmly believed in the ominous, prophetic-like stories told by adults, feared the Bogeyman to the extreme and blindly followed their parents’ words.

I remember that this phenomenon had even become a social problem.

Also, children with rich imaginations would add delusions like the curse of loneliness to such ghost stories. The countless children forcibly crammed into one narrow hole would one day merge into one and become a new Bogeyman. That’s the only way they can be liberated. In order to escape from the hole and be liberated from the cursed fate, they have no choice but to create a new, cursed being!

The child who constantly muttered such ominous words in the corner of the classroom was an object of fear, but also a mental pillar.

Because such terrible stories always had a solution.

Red Mask was a superhuman butcher who killed children, but surprisingly, he was an entity that could be easily defeated with a simple spell. Just shouting Pomade once would make him tremble, pee his pants, and run away.

It was the same with the Bogeyman.

You can defeat him by chanting a simple spell. The children who spewed out ominous stories would tell you the secret spell as if they were doing you a favor. Like religious leaders.

“But Maharn, who doesn’t know that spell, will have no choice but to be trapped forever.”

Well, if I let him out in a few days, he’ll definitely be completely insane and spill everything, even the things he shouldn’t.

But there’s no guarantee that that bastard knows the real headquarters of his god.

Whatever. It doesn’t matter.

After all, Lisperia will find it on her own, and I just want to torment Maharn.

“Then Lisperia! Continue to carry out your mission!”
“Understood!”

I’ll delegate this work to Lisperia now.

Next time the Infinite Army comes, I can just go fight then.

* * *

“Katt!!! This is amazing!!!”
“What is it now.”

As soon as I got back, Claudia body-checked me. As I gently hugged her and asked why.

“This time, the video of Katt annihilating those Infinite Army guys!!! The number of views skyrocketed to hundreds of millions!!!”
“No way!! Already!!!”
“There are so many comments that I can’t reply to them all one by one!!!”

As expected, Earthlings are weak to things that are shown to them!

“Quickly! Claudia, I want to see it too!”
“Follow me!”
“Oooooooo!”

I immediately followed Claudia and sat down! Claudia, who sat me down, was just beaming and played the video.

—Twakakakakakang!!

“Oh!”

Sound and screen…! Risha had edited it very well. Every scene of me wielding my sword and punching was captured from various angles.

Since it wasn’t taken with a camera, but with an artifact that captured not only my vision but also my surroundings, it must have been very easy to extract the screen!

“The kids love it too! Everyone’s clamoring to see Katt!”
“Then I have to go see them!!!”

Let’s go see my babies quickly!!!