As the story opens, Katagiri, an employee of Tokyo Security Trust Bank, finds a six-foot, powerfully-built frog waiting inside his apartment room. He was alarmed, but the Frog assures that he comes here for a purpose. The Frog tells Katagiri that an earthquake will terrorize the city of Tokyo on February 18, 1995 and that he needs Katagiri’s bravery and determination in order to conquer the source of the soon-to-be earthquake: the Worm. Uncertain of the mission the Frog proposes, Katagiri declines his offer to join. Frog tells him that he knows about a case wherein he was involved, noting that he would take care of it. The next day at work, Katagiri gets a call from a lawyer stating that his client will take care of the case on the condition that he will not send Frog back to his home again. He meets Frog again, and, after realizing what purpose he has in Frog’s mission, he was convinced to join him. They set up a meeting place on a basement boiler of the bank the night before the earthquake. While walking to that place from work, Katagiri was faced by an unidentified man who aimed a gun and shot him twice. He witnesses chaos as he falls unconscious. He wakes up in a hospital bed, hooked on an IV. A nurse told him he was found out cold on the streets, no wounds received, leaving Katagiri in a state of confusion and questioned himself if …show more content…
He claims himself to be a “product of metaphor, allusion, deconstruction, nor sampling of any other complex process,” and a “sum of all frogs”. He also is a pacifist and living with art and nature, and has not been involved in fights until he comes across with a mission to kill Worm; one reason why he asks Katagiri for him to win the battle against the Worm and save Tokyo. He serves as the hero in the story because he will fight the Worm and save Tokyo from a pending destruction that the Worm will