shout out to @bernofx Cid Kagenou is the protagonist of The Eminence in Shadow, a chuunibyou-driven teenager who dies in modern Japan while pursuing his obsessed dream of becoming a powerful mastermind operating from the shadows, only to be reincarnated into a magical fantasy world as the son of a noble family. Retaining his past memories and extreme delusions, he trains rigorously in secret to become overwhelmingly powerful, assuming the alter ego "Shadow" while treating his entire reality like an elaborate role-playing game. To satisfy his fantasies, he rescues a group of elven girls afflicted by a curse, cures them, and invents a completely fictional backstory about a malicious cult called the Order of Diablos that secretly rules the world, claiming that his group, Shadow Garden, must stop them. Unbeknownst to Cid, who believes his subordinates are just playing along with his chuunibyou scripts and hiring actors for elaborate fights, the Order of Diablos is completely real, and his fabricated lies accidentally align perfectly with the world's actual history and geopolitical conspiracies. As Shadow Garden expands into a massive, highly efficient global underground organization, Cid goes about his daily life playing the ultimate, unremarkable background character at the Midgar Academy for Dark Knights, deliberately losing fights, dating the school's princess Alexia Midgar as a joke, and accidentally stumbling into massive terrorist plots, demonic resurrections, and corporate warfare. Every time Cid intervenes to show off his cool, rehearsed chunni dialogue and unleash his devastating, nuclear-level magic like "I Am Atomic," he inadvertently massacres high-ranking cult leaders, rescues crucial political figures, and uncovers ancient artifacts, all while remaining utterly convinced that his girls are just throwing thematic parties and that the villains are mundane bandits or cult-themed cosplayers. This fundamental misunderstanding drives the entire plot through major arcs, including the hijacking of the academy, the Goddess's Trial in Lindwurm, the financial crisis of the Lawless City where he adopts the persona of John Smith to counterfeit currency for a convoluted personal scheme, and the blood queen's awakening, leading up to an dimensional escalation where he is briefly dragged back to a post-apocalyptic, monster-infested Earth before returning to continue his blissfully oblivious reign as the world's most terrifyingly powerful, accidental savior. #emineceintheshadow #cidkagenou #cid #aurora #couple - @xenozxdd