Terdungeon, basement level.

　I came here with Vanadium, and Alice and Eve.
　A dungeon I've been going to for a long time, I have a good grasp of the structure.

　We came to a cul-de-sac at the far end of the floor, where there were no monsters, and where no one would normally come.
　On the way, I caught one of the sleeping slimes with a straitjacket and brought it with me.

''Then Alice, please.''
Yeah, I'm on it.

　Put the sleeping slime at the far end of the cul-de-sac and leave.

'Hone hone, pull.'

　Alice called out her name and pointed at the sleeping slime with a bleep.
　Immediately after, two monsters jumped out of its shoulder.

　A skeleton honehone and a slime pull.

　The two adorable bodies went towards the sleeping slime and struck it with a octopus.

　In no time at all, the sleeping slime was defeated and one of the carrots there dropped.

　With the carrot in its place, Hone Honehone and Pulle pulled up and came back.

　I stared at that carrot.

　The carrot that got away from us, the carrot, in my eyes, seems to decrease to 99%, 98%, 97%.......

　At the same time it reached 0%, a sleeping slime hatched from the carrot.

Alice.
'Yes!　Both of you, again!

　At Alice's command, Hone Honehonen and Pru-Pru, who were heading towards him while giving off a somewhat hijinks feeling.
　There were no restraining bullets this time, but I still easily beat them with a octopus strike.

　Then the carrot dropped again.

'Pick it up and come back.

　Alice went and came back carrying a carrot with a hone hone and a puller like eh-eh-eh-eh.
　Alice takes them and shows them to me.

'Well?'
Yeah, 90%. I'm not going any further.
Yeah. Yves, how does it taste?

　Alice goes straight to hand the carrot to Eve, who is waiting for it.
　Eve takes it and says, "Bally! Whenever I hear this, I want to say "No, you won't," and I start biting into the carrot.

It's kind of tasty.
I see.
Well, it's pretty obvious.

　Alice smiled and shrugged her shoulders a little bit.

　There's a reason why I, who came here to test the reincarnation of drop items, asked Alice and Eve to help me.

　Alice is a dungeon-born special ability, and unlike her actual status, she can see "when to drop", so her quality is so-so, but her drop rate is almost a hundred percent.

　A hundred percent is easy to test, and if the quality is there, it's easy to see if it's increased.
　And to see if the quality went up, I asked Yves, the carrot sommelier, who never compromises on carrots at all.

　If this was me, I don't think it would have worked out as subtly as it did.

　It reminds me of the New Year's specials I used to watch every year before I came here.
　There's one thing I keep thinking about after watching that.

　You can clearly see the difference between a $498 and $5,000 wine, but I don't think there's much difference between a $5,000 wine and a $100,000 wine.

　That's what I meant by that, and I asked Alice for a 100% drop with a decent quality there.

Let's try some more.
Yeah!

　Go get another sleeping slime and lock it in a cul-de-sac.
　Defeat it, hatch it, defeat it - and repeat.

　That made it clear.

　In the same way that the aged meat I saw in the city for the fifth incarnation is 50%, every time a carrot is reincarnated once, the maximum haggler degree (a number only I can see, so I tentatively named it) drops by 10%.

　On the fourth incarnation, Alice raised her voice when she saw the sleeping slime that had hatched.

''Ah.''
What's going on?
I don't know, I can't even catch the drop.
...... Has the slot turnover gone over the limit?

　I've been thinking about it since I first heard it.
　Alice's that is like pushing the eye of the slot, so to speak.
　Even with Alice's ability, it's just barely four times, so it's no wonder that five times reincarnated aged meat would be 'about once a year'.

　It might be as low as the odds of a normal adventurer meeting a spirit.

'Don't worry, I expected that. I'll take over the rest.
I'm sorry.
Okay.
Oh, and I'm getting stronger by the way.
Really?

　I pull out my gun and shoot the sleeping slime with regular bullets.

　Well, you'll understand when you see it in action.
　When I pointed the gun at it, it reacted a little faster than the normal sleeping slime.

　Still, it's only a sleeping slime, and I quickly fixed it and shot it out.
　Carrots are dropped, reincarnated five times.

'Oh, that's great, Ryota.
Let's keep going.

　After declaring it, the carrot is reincarnated repeatedly.

　Five times, six times, seven times, eight times, nine times.

　With a drop S, I'm spinning a slot where everything is hit, so to speak, and I made nine reincarnated carrots without difficulty.

　The haggle degree was 10% as expected, and since I beat it at a long distance, it started to dwindle quickly, so I hurriedly approached it and picked it up.

''10% or ...... what happens if I go again?''
Let's do it.

　I nodded and put the carrot back in its place and waited for it to become a haglemono.

　A carrot with a haglemono degree of 10% in nine reincarnations, immediately hatched into a sleeping slime.
　I shot it out and let it drop - the moment.

　The carrots were visible for a moment and then immediately turned into sleeping slime.

'Zero percent, huh?'
Zero percent.

　Me and Alice nodded at each other when we saw that.
　This is one of the patterns we had expected.
　So me and Alice both nodded in agreement.

'Carrots......'

　Eve looked a bit wistful.
　What I could see for a moment was a phantom ten-turned carrot.

　I raise my gun again and take out my pouch.
　This pouch has the ability to suck items into this pouch the moment it is dropped.
　With it, I shoot the sleeping slime through it.

　After the sleeping slime was defeated and the carrot was visible for a moment, the pouch bulged.

　There was a carrot.
　I took it out.

''Well?''
Zero percent, that's one percent.

　The moment I took it out, the carrot of the 10th or 11th incarnation, which was 0% the moment I took it out, went from 0% at the beginning to 1% while I had it.
　But it doesn't grow beyond 1%.

It stays at 1.
That's the best you can do.
Yeah.
"Low level, carrots for rabbits.
It's true. It's true. Here.

　I hold out the carrot.
　I don't want to go through a period where I don't touch it for even a second, so I make sure Eve receives it before I let it go.

　Eve immediately nibbles on the carrot--.

'Wow!　What's up, Eve, you're crying like crazy with a straight face.
...... low level.
Yeah?
'Rabbit, I'm going to be a low-level kid.
Was it that good?
'You can do what you want with the rabbit, more carrots.
It's really good.
I guess.

　Well, now we know almost everything.
　The approximate specifications of the degree of haggling.

　I wondered if I could make use of this in any way, and reloaded the amount of normal ammunition I had just fired.

Hmm.
What's going on?
No, these bullets, there aren't many, but some of them are 90%.
'Heh ...... Oh, you do Lyota sometimes, you do it from a bullet and back to slime and then another bullet.'
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

　If you ask me, I've certainly done that.
　In the very early days.

　I haven't done it since then because there's no need to, so I haven't done it at all, but I guess it's a remnant of those days.
　Well, it doesn't matter if you know--" "Will this bullet get better?

Is this bullet going to be better?
Why don't you shoot it and find out?
That too.

　Two pistols, both loaded with conventional rounds.
　One is 100% normal ammo with 100% haggling, and the other is 90% (,) normal ammo with one change.

　When you shoot those two bullets at the wall at the same time.

Yeah, it's a little strong.
It's really subtle.
'This is ...... not enough to bother with. It's consumable and given the hassle.
Yeah. Oh, but...

　Alice remembered something and whispered an earful to me.

'Oh,'

　Alice's suggestion was very appealing.

　　　　　Stars

　Saloon at night, in front of everyone gathered.
　Celeste used two bicorn horns at the same time to shoot a ball of fire.

　One launched the usual ball of fire - and then the other, launched a little later, was so big that it swallowed the first ball of fire.

　Celeste looked at her, and her fellow gallery members were subtly impressed, "Oh.

''Su, wow. Lyota, this is amazing!

　Celeste was surprised to the extent that she was piddling with the bicorn horn I gave her - the one with the nine reincarnations.

　Expendable bullets are useless if you think about the hassle, but the bicorn horn is different.

　The nine reincarnations I made at Alice's suggestion - no.

　With the Bicorn Horn + 9 and the item with that name that came to mind, Celeste became even stronger.