Light Novel

The Eminence in Shadow is a Japanese published Light Novel written by Daisuke Aizawa and illustrated by Touzai (東西). This story is about a boy named Cid Kagenou, a person who has always looked up to the heroes that work in the shadows of society. In an unfortunate accident, he is reborn in a world of magic, so he uses his vast knowledge of martial arts and training discipline to become a power in the shadows. With the members of Shadow Garden, he unwittingly works to stop the Order of Diabolos and their diabolical plans.

The Japanese version of this light novel is published by Kadokawa and the English version by Yen Press LLC.

Synopsis
One big fat lie and a few twisted truths

Even in his past life, Cid's dream wasn't to become a protagonist or a final boss. He'd rather lie low as a minor character until it's prime time to reveal he's a mastermind...or at least, do the next best thing-pretend to be one! And now that he's been reborn into another world, he's ready to set the perfect conditions to live out his dreams to the fullest. Armed with his overactive imagination, Cid jokingly recruits members to his organization and makes up a whole backstory about an evil cult that they need to take down. Well, as luck would have it, these imaginary adversaries turn out to be the real deal-and everyone knows the truth but him!

Trivia

 * The translator Taishi in J-novel is the same person as the Original translation of web-novel TenshiTranslation, It's still unknow why he change the title and the naming in the original translation used in web-novel.
 * Translator of Shadow is and Secret-org is the same person, Taishi. Who started the web-novel translation of both series. The formal translator Rosie for Secret-org and BBIS for Shadow use Taishi's discord server primary.
 * The initial Web-translation name "to be a power in the shadows" is more popular title among the readers than "The Eminence in Shadow"
 * Both the English and Japanese is not translator Taishi's native language.