32-year-old Todo Shinichi works for L.E.D, a large computer system development company. He is an outstanding system developer who developed a groundbreaking software that can erase data such as images that have spread on the internet. Shinichi has just introduced his fiancee Kuramoto Sanae, whom he has decided to marry, to his mother Makiko, and everything is going well for him. Then one day, he is unexpectedly suspected by his company all of a sudden. �gAren�ft you an imposter sneaking in with the name Todo Shinichi?�h At the company, every 13-digit personal number assigned to each citizen must be registered. He is told the owner of this number is a man with the same first and last names. A complete stranger who was arrested for assaulting a woman several days ago. Shinichi ends up being ordered to stay at home as he is unidentifiable. When he consults Osanai Tamotsu, his friend from university days who works for the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, he is informed that data that can prove his own existence is nowhere to be found. In order to search for clues to this baffling case, he heads to Niigata where the fake �gShinichi�h is being detained. It is also the place where he spent his university days. With the help of his friends Nagasaki Haruka, Saito Hiroshi and others, Shinichi learns that his personal number was hijacked. He is the victim of an identity theft. Using the software he developed, Shinichi successfully discovers the real name and data of the fake �gShinichi�h. Armed with incontrovertible evidence of identity theft, he leaves Niigata and celebrates with Osanai at his regular bar which is run by the bartender Kusaka Eiji. But at this point, no one knows about the terrifying situation that is in store for him. Is it a sheer mistake by the country? Or is it someone�fs plot? Shinichi has to scramble to pin down the true identity of his invisible enemy as he endures betrayal by trusted friends, chilly stares by the people around him and a series of mysterious incidents. |