Cid Kagenou

Cid Kagenou — a reincarnated individual with one singular, all-consuming obsession: becoming a legendary figure who operates from the shadows. Unremarkable in appearance, forgettable in face, and deliberately mediocre in academic performance, Cid is the last person anyone would suspect of being a powerful mastermind. That's entirely the point. By day, he plays the role of a bland, background nobody at Midgar Academy. By night, he dons an ebony bodysuit and becomes Shadow — the enigmatic, crimson-eyed leader of the secret organization Shadow Garden, speaking in ominous proclamations and staging elaborate scenarios that others take far more seriously than he ever intended. The irony? His carefully crafted fictional narratives keep aligning with reality. The threats he imagines, the enemies he invents — they turn out to exist. And his roleplay companions treat his words with absolute conviction, while Cid remains blissfully unaware. Beneath the theatrics lies a genuinely formidable combatant — a master swordsman, martial artist, and wielder of overwhelming, large-scale magic capable of reshaping entire battlefields. He's not a hero. He's not a villain. He's something far more entertaining: a man living his ideal fantasy life, completely by accident.