Cat Persona

So far, the business scope Zheng Qing had planned for D&K was limited to four areas: talisman sales, potion sales, live rat sales, and low-priced purchasing services from Wander Bar.

This was not merely a matter of business licenses—the Beta Town Chamber of Commerce imposed clear restrictions on every shop's business scope. Anyone operating beyond the stipulated range could receive fines or even be ordered to suspend operations for rectification. The You Zui Hunting Team had only obtained a trading company license, so they could only engage in reselling—but the main reason limiting Zheng Qing and the others was their own capabilities.

Or rather, their lack of specialization.

Time had carved deep marks into the Bluestone Path of Beta Town's Pedestrian Street, while also leaving behind shop after shop with extensive experience, exceptional expertise, and solid reputations on either side of the street.

For instance, Hook Brothers Clock Shop was renowned both on and off the island for making all kinds of clocks and watches. Their timepieces were said to be able to "adjust time across worlds," meaning that even if one of their watches left Earth for another New World, its precision and timekeeping would remain unaffected.

Then there was Green Grocery Store, famous for low margins, high volume, and a vast selection of goods. It claimed that if something could not be found in the Wizarding World, then it could not be bought in their store—everything from Quill Pens, rice paper, cinnabar ink, and Huizhou ink to bundles of Standard Talismans, crucibles of every size, knives, Silkworm Skin Gloves, even unconsecrated peachwood charms, swords made from Lightning-struck Wood, Voodoo Dolls, Human Skin Thangkas, and so on. So long as it was some useful item available on the market, this grocery store had seven or eight out of ten