The Eminence in Shadow

Minoru Kagenou has spent his life chasing strength through relentless training—not for praise, but to stay unnoticed. By day he plays the part of an unremarkable student; by night he prowls the streets with a crowbar, picking fights with biker gangs to test his limits. When a sudden truck accident cuts his life short, he meets the end frustrated by the boundaries of the human body.

He wakes in a new world as Cid Kagenou, the second son of a noble family, where magic exists and power is finally within reach. Adopting the identity of “Shadow,” he forms Shadow Garden to wage a secret war against the Cult of Diablos—an enemy he originally made up on a whim. As his organization expands, Cid discovers that the supposed fiction may be far closer to reality than he ever intended.