The next afternoon, after a morning visit to Prumbum's place, I took Vanadium into town with me.

　We sat on the terrace of a street-corner café, slowly sipping our coffee and watching the scene before us.
　Rather, it's more of a training exercise.

　I thought that this ability to know the degree of progress - this ability to see the degree of haggling that has a precedent, Alice, could be improved if I trained.
　So I went out into the city and observed the progression of random people and the things they were affected by.

　If it's best, I'll narrow down my senses to cover the entire cyclo area and see only what I can see in front of me.

　That one isn't progressing at all, this one is progressing a bit.
　As the owner of the grocery store goes back and forth in the store to serve customers, the degree of the safe behind the counter increases and decreases.

　Maybe it's partly because I've narrowed down my senses, but gradually, I've come to understand the changes in attitudes in detail.

　At first there were three levels.
　In my senses, there were three stages like a traffic light, red, blue and yellow.

　Every time I looked at it, I gradually became able to recognize the change in detail, and now I can recognize it in about 100 steps, or percentages.

　The clothes of the passers-by who pass in front of me are 100%.
　The cup of coffee I ordered and the plate of cake that Vanadium is enjoying eating go back and forth between 100% and 99%, depending on whether I touch it or not.

　Two things I've learned since I've been able to see that much detail.

　First of all, it doesn't affect whether or not it becomes a haggler, but there is a slight difference between humans touching it and not touching it.
　If you touch it, it goes back to 100%, but if you don't touch it and leave it nearby, it only goes back to 99%.

　And one more thing, this one has a little bit to do with becoming a haggler.

　The ones that get away from people and gradually drop in percentage will recover when people approach or touch them again, but not all at once to 100%.
　It's like a gradual, gradual recovery, just like charging your phone.

　By the way, it recovers faster when you touch it directly, and a little slower when you are near it.

　I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to get it right.

　I've been a victim of the Hagremonos several times.
　Almost everything I've seen has been stable in percentage terms.
　Some of them decrease and recover, but in the long run - in units of an hour or so - the percentages are not decreasing and are stable.

　In a world where everything is dropped from the dungeon, if there are no people, you'll go back to haggle things - you'll go back to being a monster.
　And don't let that happen.
　Houses are made that way, things are put that way, people live that way.

　I could see even more clearly with my new ability, and this world became more and more interesting to me.

　Suddenly, I felt a presence approaching from behind me.

　I turned around with a flash and saw Emily and Cerberus.

'It's Emily and the others. Taking a walk?
'Yes, sir. But I was surprised. Did you see us coming?
Yeah, or rather, Hagremonos - I felt a hint of Cerberus.
Is it mine, master?
Yeah.

　Nodding, I nodded and patted the Cerberus.
　Its size is unstandardized, but its form and pretensions remain the same as a dog's.
　His gestures of delight at being petted are also intact.

　On the other hand, Emily, who is holding the leash, thinks for a moment and asks with a surprised look on her face, "Yoda-san, Hagremonos?

'Yoda-san, have you learned to understand the haggle?'
......

　It was the first time I'd noticed it, too, when he pointed it out to me.

'Well, I only knew about it when I was a golem or until it hatched.
'Yes, sir. It's great again!

　Emily blessed me with an angelic smile.
　I don't know when it happened, maybe, but it was around the time I started to understand the percentages.

　I expanded my senses from before my eyes to a wide area - the entire Cyclo area.
　Then I began to understand the existence of haggledy things in various places, which I couldn't before.

Yes, I can tell. All the haguramono in the cyclone.
It's amazing!
I guess all that practice wasn't for nothing. Anyway, Emily, did you do some shopping while you were at it?

　I look at Emily's hand.
　The hand opposite the one holding the lead is lowering the shopping bag.

'Yes, sir, we're shopping for dinner. Thanks to little Cerberus, I got some good meat.
Cerberus?
I chose something that smelled good.

　Cerberus replies, I see, a doggie's sense of smell.

　I lean forward and look in my shopping bag.

'A grocery store, then a butcher, then a grocery store, in that order.
What? How can you tell?

　Emily is surprised again.
　I told her about my sense of percentages and how my recovery wasn't going to be maxed out all at once, it was going to be gradual.

'So I looked at my recovery levels and it was veggies, meat, veggies,'
'I see. I think that sounds like a very useful power.
Well, let's figure out what to do with it. Well.

　I got up.
　I reached out to Vanadium, who was finishing his cake and looking bored, and Vanadium took my hand.

'Shopping, I'll come with you.'
Yes, sir!

　I walk alongside a happy Emily, who looks happy to see me.

　I hold hands with Vanadium and Emily takes the lead on Cerberus.
　An ideal family holiday, it feels like.

　All the while, I'm chatting with Emily, watching my surroundings carefully.
　Because I'm trying to nurture my growing abilities, more of them.

　Suddenly, I saw something that caught my attention and stopped me in my tracks.

　After going a bit further, Emily noticed me and stopped and turned around as well.

'What's wrong, Yoda?'
That meat: "That meat: ......

　I pointed to a delicious looking hunk of meat in the butcher's showcase.
　It's stuck at 50% and hasn't recovered from that, despite the butcher's owner being around the whole time.
　He's stuck on the floor at 50%.

'Oh, visitor, this is it, your eyes are high.'

　Noticing our gaze, the owner of the butcher shop spoke to me with a sales smile on his face.

'Is it a special kind of meat?'
Yes. It's an extremely rare, five-turned-aged meat that just arrived today. Five turns of life come in about once a year. Would you like me to wrap it up for you?
'Did you get it from this one?　That's great, Mr. Yoda.

　Smiling back at the smiling Emily, I wondered what this was all about.