I pick up the ring and stare at it intently.

　The shape is like a different shape, the effect must be different.
　The question is, how different is it?

'I smell a breakthrough.'
Wow!

　He spoke to me out of the blue, startling me.

　I took a few steps back while puffing and pretending, where I regained my composure and checked out the person I was talking to.

'Cell ...... so here it is.'
"At the end of my nap, I had a dream.
"Dreams?
'Hmm, a dream in which Satou-sama took a further leap of faith. This must have been a prophetic dream, but, alas, a dream is a dream, a dream that has spilled through the cracks of my fingers at all but the most important point.
Too many tweaks and unusually poetic: ......

　Why not?　The reason it didn't turn out to be a target is because Cell doesn't blow the whistle or say the wrong thing about such things.

　It's like if you go to a new dungeon and Eve says, "I smell carrots," you can bet they'll drop carrots there.

　I saw the ring.
　I dreamed I was going to take a leap, right?

　I'm sure the timing of this is definitely related to this ring.

　Let's try it out.

　I put that ring on and loaded the gun with normal bullets.
　First normal bullet, the usual test.
　It's the simplest and most appropriate benchmark because it's the most basic.

　As it is, I pull the trigger against the wall.

'Oh, that's twice as much as normal.'

　Cell said with a mixture of cheers when he saw the bullets slammed into the wall.

'You understand,'
Of course, Satou-sama's bravery is all I need to know.
Courageous?
Rest assured, I have no desire to intrude on your private life. All I want to do is to show the world the manly and heroic figure of Lord Sato.
Isn't that a double entendre?

　I mean, I feel like the tsukkomi is off.

　But, well.
　Cell is that kind of person.

　Personally, I trust this kind of pervert more than most people, because perverts don't care about anything other than their interests.
　Because perverts don't care about anything other than what they're interested in.

'You're not interested in pants or anything, are you?'
Pants?　You mean your underwear.
Yeah.
Of course, Master Sato wouldn't feel bad about his pants.
Yeah. Well, I'd like to see you in your underwear. I was afraid I'd say, "Hey, I want to see your pants.

　I'm not talking about my pants in the first place, I'm talking about women's pants in general.
　I guess I'm not interested enough to even get that out of my head.
　So I can trust your words.
　You're really not interested in anything but my "bravery".

'That said, ...... double the power, huh?'
Hmm. That's exactly twice as many.
You have a better grasp of the situation than I do-- how about this?

　He loaded the flaming bullets and fired with the ring on.
　The flaming bullets that hit the wall flared up, unfolding a familiar magic circle.

　The flames also flared up more grandly than usual.

　Then, I glanced at the cell.

'Oh, that's exactly double.

　Whether he sensed my intentions or not, Cell gave me the feedback I wanted to know.

　I tried a lot of things.
　Frozen bullets, tracking bullets, lightning bullets ......etc.

　I tried a whole range of attack bullets, and Cell appraised them all as "exactly double".
　I thought it was "roughly double" myself, so I'm probably right about doubling the power.

　I even tried shooting them off just to be sure, but they were still as powerful as they were.

　By the way, there was no particular change in the bullets for recovery rounds, ironclad rounds, and restraint rounds.
　Ironclad and restraint, but the recovery bullets were a bit unexpected, as they seemed to double in power.

　But this was easy to understand.

　The power of the attack system was doubled.

　I like this kind of easy to understand.

'Yeah, I'll have to test if it's real time too.
Real time?
Yeah, I'll tell you what.

　The previous ring eventually came down to that story as well.
　I fired two additional, easy-to-understand conventional rounds, saying it was faster to show him how to actually do it than to explain it from scratch.

　Shoot it while it's on and miss it before it lands.
　Shoot with it off and put it on just before it lands.

　As a result, the one I put on right before the bullets landed was more powerful.

Hmm, I see. So that's what you mean by 'real time'.
That's what I mean. The power was in real time.
What's the 'power'?
'Oh, uh, ......'

　I'll have to explain this one, as expected.
　And then I thought about how to explain about the previous ring, and my head was full of ideas.

"--!

　As if struck by lightning, something flashed in my head.

　I desperately gathered up these vague, fluttering images and gave them shape.

Oh, right!

　As soon as I realized this, I took the pivoting doll out of the Grand Eater's pocket.

'Oh, that's exactly what it is, Satou-sama.

　I went through the cell for a moment, feeling impressed, and smashed the doll.
　I heard an "Oh ......" that sounded like a waste of time, but I ignored it too.

　With Sakura's ability, both of the example rings came to me.

　I put both rings on.

　I load the normal bullets and pull the trigger.

　The split bullets, three bullets flew out all at once.

　I immediately remove the two rings and replace them with new rings of increased power.
　And then it lands.

"Whoa!

　Cell cheered.
　It was just as well.

　The three bullets split by the ring, all of which were twice as powerful as usual.

　Number and power.

　It was a dreamlike combination of the best of both worlds.