Uesugi Izakaya was on fire.
More precisely, their food was on fire.
The once deserted alley nobody cared for was now bustling with people, with several long lines of customers making the already narrow alley impassable, and the queue even spilled out onto the street.
From a passerby's perspective, the scale of the queue was indeed terrifying, with no end in sight, causing many pedestrians to stop and ask those waiting in line.
"Their rice balls are too delicious!"
A young man, wiping the water at the corner of his mouth, answered.
T.V. station teams took notice of the anomaly here, reporters squeezed through, and approached a couple snuggling up to one another, extending the microphone to ask, "The fireworks festival is about to start, why are you still queuing here?"
The female intern reporter glanced at the queue that seemed to have no end ahead.
