Cid Kagenou is the protagonist of The Eminence in Shadow, the Japanese light novel series by Daisuke Aizawa with illustrations by Tozai, later adapted into a manga and a 2022 anime by Nexus. He began as Minoru Kageno, a 17-year-old high school student who died in a truck accident and was reborn in a fantasy world as the 16-year-old son of a minor noble family.

Under the alias Shadow, he secretly founded Shadow Garden to oppose the Cult of Diablos, while many around him take his act as role-play that keeps turning out to be real. His lif