"No meow, not there meow!"
"You're so annoying meow! Stop groping meow!"
"Do you want me to scratch you meow!"
As soon as Haruki entered the cat café, he heard Hina's annoyed voice.
It was held in the arms of a cute little girl, looking extremely exasperated.
But out of professional ethics, it only uttered complaints but didn't move its claws.
After grumbling and scolding for a while, its working time was over, and it quickly jumped out.
"I'll come to see you next time." The little girl waved at it happily.
"Don't come to me. Find another cat meow." Hina took a step back in fear.
Haruki smiled and looked around. As expected, the cat café was full.
Moreover, most of them were ordinary civilians living in Konoha.
"Miss Hina, you're still so popular."
Haruki walked up to it, squatted down, and reached out his hand to stroke its head.
"Wait a minute." Hina pressed his hand with its small furry paw. "Where's the Greeting?"
"Here you are." Haruki took out a light - green ball.
"What's this meow?" Hina was a bit disappointed as it didn't see the golden ball it liked, and it wasn't as enthusiastic about Haruki either.
"Catnip." Haruki looked mysterious. "It's more exciting than the golden ball."
"Really meow?"
Hina took the catnip and subconsciously brought it to its nose to smell. Immediately, an indescribable sense of comfort passed through its mind, which then spread throughout its body.
"What... what... thing meow?"
Hina trembled and immediately moved the catnip away, controlling with great willpower its urge to roll on the ground.
"You can think of it as a kind of candy. It's completely harmless." Haruki chuckled twice. "Is Miss Hina satisfied?"
"Fine, you passed meow." Thinking of the feeling as if she had gone to heaven just now, Hina put away the catnip and planned to find a secluded place to indulge in sniffing it to her heart's content.
"How's business lately?" Haruki asked.
"You can see for yourself. Apart from some clumsy guys, it's not bad meow. There are people to give massages and feed us. I'm starting to think that the pets aren't us but you humans."
"Maybe you're right." Haruki joked. "This is what we call 'Cuteness is king'."
"Really can't understand you humans." Hina licked its paw. "What are you doing here today?"
"Obito Uchiha." Haruki stepped aside, revealing Obito who was behind him. "I want you to find a summon for him. It has to be beautiful and cute."
"I'll reiterate again that our ninja cat clan is in a proper business meow." Hina looked at Haruki contemptuously.
"No, you've got the wrong idea." Cold sweat broke out on Haruki's forehead. He wasn't a pervert and wouldn't do anything to the cats.
"I hope so." Hina waved, and Haruki leaned over. It said, "Bring me more catnip next time."
"No problem."
"The deal's done. Kid, come with me to see Nekobaa." Hina got up and gracefully walked into the house.
"Go ahead." Haruki said.
After Obito left, he also left the cat café.
Looking at the continuous stream of people, Haruki thought that maybe it was time to expand the scale.
He brought Obito Uchiha here to contract a summoned beast, but at the same time, he hoped the pet could help him release his emotions.
Research from his previous life showed that pets could, to some extent, alleviate loneliness and anxiety.
The reason for Obito's tragic future was his past experiences, mainly his childhood.
Numerous facts have proven how profound the impact of childhood can be on a person.
Having lost both parents, being mocked by his classmates, and then being misled by Madara Uchiha, Obito witnessed the girl he loved die at the hands of Kakashi. Combined with the unique emotional stimulation of the Uchiha clan that led to the awakening of his Sharingan, it would be even more difficult for him not to turn evil.
What Haruki was doing now was to prevent these triggers from happening.
Pulling himself back from his thoughts, he arrived at the Hyuga clan.
Since Saori Hyuga was in Sunagakure, A Happy Union of Gold and Jade hadn't really opened yet.
In Haruki's plan, he intended to hire members of the Hyuga clan as the main force for making jewelry.
With their Byakugan, they could perform extremely complicated carving work.
Currently, the jewelry in the ninja world was too rough and belonged to primary processed products, while what he wanted to do was high - end processing, which had higher added value.
Without high - tech processing machines, he would let the ninjas replace them to give full play to productivity.
"Kaoru." Haruki knocked on the door and then entered.
"Lord Haruki." Hyuga Kaoru, wearing a kimono, stood up and said gently, "I'm looking at the jewelry catalog you gave me."
"What do you think?"
"Very beautiful!" Talking about this, Hyuga Kaoru got excited, clearly showing a woman's natural love for beauty. "I've never seen such exquisite jewelry!"
"If even you like it, it's bound to be very popular."
"Definitely." Hyuga Kaoru nodded vigorously.
"Sunagakure will send the first batch of Gold Dust soon. Then, please gather people to start work. You can issue duties in the name of A Happy Union of Gold and Jade in Konoha. It'll be easier for everyone to accept." Haruki suggested.
Although the ninja code was a bit outdated, it was beneficial to him.
No matter how bad things were, as long as there was a duty, everything could be negotiated.
Haruki often sighed that ninjas were simple - minded. They didn't mingle with the nobles, didn't care about the economy, and didn't rule over the civilians.
This saved him a lot of trouble for his future great cause.
According to his future plan, it would be best for ninjas to be a pure army.
"I understand." Hyuga Kaoru said.
"Well, there's another thing. I hope you can help me make a diamond ring and ten diamond Kunai." Haruki seemed to remember something and said.
In the ninja world, diamonds were still as expensive as in his previous life.
In the original story, Tenten once gave a diamond kunai as a wedding gift when Naruto Uzumaki and Hinata Hyuga got married.
"Okay." Hyuga Kaoru nodded.
She was the chosen representative of the Hyuga clan and the person - in - charge of A Happy Union of Gold and Jade in Konoha.
Haruki didn't expect the Hyuga clan to send Hyuga Kaoru to handle it.
Hiashi Hyuga explained that she didn't like fighting and was interested in beautiful jewelry, so they just let her do it.
"Here's this for you." Haruki took out a Scroll.
"Artificial Diamonds?" Hyuga Kaoru opened the Scroll curiously and immediately widened her Byakugan.
"Yeah, I'll ask Mikoto to come and help."
Haruki came up with this idea after learning about diamonds. Artificial diamonds look almost the same as natural diamonds, but they are very cheap, and the manufacturing method isn't difficult. It just requires some experiments.
Among the methods, the high-temperature and high-pressure synthesis method is very suitable for ninjas.
Mikoto Uchiha is good at Fire Release. Having her come and give it a try while using it as a training session is simply perfect.
"Once this method succeeds, besides gold jewelry, our A Happy Union of Gold and Jade will have another stable source of income," Haruki said with a smile. "But there's no need to rush. Let's take it slow."
"Did you come up with this idea?" Hyuga Kaoru asked, looking at the content of the Scroll.
"Sort of."
"This is incredible," Hyuga Kaoru couldn't hold back her surprise. She had never thought that diamonds could be made artificially, but she was sure that a big change was about to happen.
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