diff --git a/pcapkit/corekit/fields/numbers.py b/pcapkit/corekit/fields/numbers.py
index 52389c527d..d63c4f3264 100644
--- a/pcapkit/corekit/fields/numbers.py
+++ b/pcapkit/corekit/fields/numbers.py
@@ -741,14 +741,17 @@ def post_process(self, value: 'int | bytes', packet: 'dict[str, Any]') -> 'Stdli
             bare, unlogged :exc:`ValueError` precisely because the ``except
             ValueError`` fallback of :meth:`~pcapkit.corekit.enum.EnumLookup.get`
             has to keep catching it (GitHub issues :issue:`584` and
-            :issue:`647`). The registries that
-            *do* bound themselves to a width and reject outside it are the
-            bit-flag ones -- :class:`pcapkit.const.tcp.flags.Flags` among them --
-            and none of those is named as the namespace of a plain
-            :class:`EnumField` anywhere in the package, so no in-library guard
-            loses its force through this method. The distinction is therefore for
-            a registry registered from outside :mod:`pcapkit.const`, which has no
-            such obligation to stay quiet.
+            :issue:`647`). That bare :exc:`ValueError` is also how a generated
+            guard bounds its registry to a width, rejecting a value outside
+            ``0 <= value <= N``. Bit-flag registries such as
+            :class:`pcapkit.const.tcp.flags.Flags` do so, and so do plain ones
+            such as :class:`pcapkit.const.ipv4.option_number.OptionNumber`, which
+            is the namespace of a plain :class:`EnumField`. That is harmless:
+            the out-of-width rejection is the bare :exc:`ValueError` this method
+            falls back on, so no in-library guard loses its force through this
+            method. The distinction is therefore for a registry registered from
+            outside :mod:`pcapkit.const`, which has no such obligation to stay
+            quiet.
 
             Octets carrying bits outside :attr:`~NumberField.bit_length` that
             :meth:`NumberField.post_process` recorded resolve to a member that
diff --git a/tests/corekit/test_fields_numbers_unassigned_enum.py b/tests/corekit/test_fields_numbers_unassigned_enum.py
index d83b09d033..a99e1c4059 100644
--- a/tests/corekit/test_fields_numbers_unassigned_enum.py
+++ b/tests/corekit/test_fields_numbers_unassigned_enum.py
@@ -239,10 +239,13 @@ def test_an_in_library_rejection_is_not_absorbed(self) -> None:
         :exc:`ValueError` on purpose -- ``tests/const/test_const_enum_builtin_parity.py``
         pins exactly that, because each generated ``get()``'s ``except
         ValueError`` fallback depends on it -- so no registry under
-        :mod:`pcapkit.const` exercises this branch, and none needs to: the
-        bit-flag registries that do bound themselves to a width, including
-        :class:`pcapkit.const.tcp.flags.Flags`, are reached through neither a
-        plain :class:`~pcapkit.corekit.fields.numbers.EnumField` nor this method.
+        :mod:`pcapkit.const` exercises this branch, and none needs to: a
+        generated guard that bounds its registry to a width rejects with that
+        same bare :exc:`ValueError`, whether the registry is a bit-flag one such
+        as :class:`pcapkit.const.tcp.flags.Flags` or a plain one such as
+        :class:`pcapkit.const.ipv4.option_number.OptionNumber` behind a plain
+        :class:`~pcapkit.corekit.fields.numbers.EnumField`, so the field falls
+        back on it like any other miss.
 
         Asserted for both enumeration libraries, because the registries under
         :mod:`pcapkit.const` are a mixture of the two and ``_missing_`` is