Shall I croak for you?"įrog tilted back his head and fled the muscles of his huge throat. A product neither of metaphor nor allusion nor deconstruction nor sampling nor any other such complex process, I am a genuine frog. Do you mind if I ask you a question or two?" "To tell you the truth, Frog," Katagiri said, "I can't quite understand what is going on here It's not that I don't trust you, but I don't seem to be able to grasp the situation exactly. "Please," Frog said, raising one finger again. I know you are thinking that I must be mad or that you are having some kind of dream, but I am not crazy and you are not dreaming. Katagiri scanned the room for a hidden TV camera in case he was being made the butt of some huge, terrible joke. I have come here to save Tokyo from destruction." But my visit has nothing to do with the repayment of loans. I am fully aware that you are Assistant Chief of the lending division of the Shinjuku branch of the Tokyo Security Trust Bank. "I have not come here on such petty business. Katagiri," Frog said, raising one webbed finger. Only my superiors can do that, I just follow orders. I have no authority to make such decisions. "Well, if you're here to negotiate a repayment, you're wasting your time. "There may be a shortage of skilled labor, but what gang is going to hire a frog to do their dirty work? They'd be made a laughingstock." Katagiri!" Frog said, slapping his webbed hand against his thigh. "Ha ha ha ha ha ha! What a wonderful sense of humor you have, Mr. "You don't happen to be connected with some kind of gang by any chance?" Katagiri found the courage to ask. Seated opposite him, Frog seemed to he studying his every movement. Katagiri pulled a pack of cigarettes from his coat pocket and struck a march. I myself am not a smoker, but I can hardly impose my distaste for tobacco on others in their own homes." "Not at all, not at all," Frog said with a smile. I've got to get a grip on myself, thought Katagiri. "Yes and no." Frog said with a tilt of the head. "Does this 'matter' have something to do with me?"
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