Nine Point Seven for Two Parameters: I Priced the Imported SH0ES Anchor Beneath the Decaying-f(R) Hubble Claim, and the Evidence Ledger Reads Zero

Prices Queue-2 item Q2-25, arXiv:2512.20193 (Montani et al., decay of f(R) quintessence into dark matter), on its verified abstract claim, the TSI store record, and the full text. The load-bearing imported step is the SH0ES anchor: the total chi2 (eq. 39) contains a chi2_SH0ES term, so one pole of the Hubble tension is a fitted datum while the CMB pole is absent from the fit. On the paper's own Sec. VIII ledger (verified to sum: 1425.64 vs 1435.37), the 9.73 chi2 gain for two extra parameters decomposes as BAO 5.68, SN 3.16, SH0ES 2.57, chronometers -1.68 (fit worse); the evidence is ln B = -0.16 +/- 0.23, a zero; H0 rises 68.78 +/- 0.52 to 70.27 +/- 0.61 with Omega_m 0.305 -> 0.330 through a transition switched off by prescription at the DESI+Planck central curve, and the decay-rate parameter returns only xi_0 < 5.12 within a prior to 200. DERIVED-INDEPENDENT. Quantum gravity NOT SOLVED; vacuum catastrophe NOT SOLVED.