No. 97 Pedestrian Street, Beta Town—the location of the D&K shop.
As the busiest commercial street in Beta Town, or rather, on all of Puji Island, Pedestrian Street was home to hundreds of shops of every size, with varying businesses and reputations.
The famous ones included Martin Tower Alchemy Company's Beta Town office, Fizzer Potion Company's First University branch, and Green Grocery Store, which specialized in wholesale general merchandise—these companies were renowned not only on Puji Island and throughout the Wizarding World, but even across the multiverse.
The less famous ones included Meow Meow Dessert Shop beside Shuang Tang Ji, as well as Ding Ding Finance and Pest Control Company, which was holding its opening ceremony—these shops had either been established only recently or had yet to officially open. Though they stood on the same street as those celebrated stores and companies, passersby's gazes often slid past their signs and fell upon more famous establishments.
It had to be admitted that, for a newly opened shop, Ding Ding Finance and Pest Control Company was a slightly awkward name. Although the D&K sign had done its best to simplify the original name's unwieldiness, it was hard to say that First University students would form any deep impression of this new company—if D&K left any impression at all, it would probably come more from its neighbor, Wander Bar.
Yes, D&K stood diagonally across from Wander Bar.
While renovating the shop, Zheng Qing had once tried it out: if he stood behind the display window inside, he could clearly see every wizard entering or leaving Wander Bar, make out the Runes embroidered on their robes, and sometimes even glimpse the pink tongue flicked out by the bar's guard frog.
That was not a good thing.
Because in the Wizarding World, just as in