Cid Kagenou

Sid is the main protagonist of the series and leader of Shadow Garden, an organization dedicated in the extermination of the Order of Diabolos.

Appearance
Sid is a young man of moderate height and having raven black hair.

As Shadow, he possesses crimson red eyes. His attire is composed solely black color and wear a hood over his head.

Personality
Ever since inspired by heroes in stories or shows, Sid made it his life goal to become the Power within the Shadows. It was an obsession that he single minded pursued. This not only alienated him from others in his old life but also alienated him from reality.

This trait was retained when he was reincarnated. While Sid is actually serious when facing life-and-death situations, he underestimates the scale of it and how it would impact to the rest of the world. He is oblivious that most of his female companions are in love with him. Most of his actions that benefited his Shadow Garden were actually random accidents that are mistaken as intentional.

After obtaining real power through his hard work and dedication, he takes great pride on his achievements and praises those who followed in this path. He has shown great disdain towards people who rob from others to obtain power.

Despite how distant he is from his loved ones, he does actually care for them.

Background
At a very young age, Sid's previous incarnation, Minoru, was inspired by characters who intervened within the conflict between good and evil and exerted great power within the shadows. He coined them as 'The Eminence in the Shadows'. After that, he started to act as an unremarkable, ordinary mob character within society all the while secretly building up his strength and physique.

However at some point, Sid began to believe that despite his peak condition, he will still be vulnerable to various armaments, including nuclear weaponry. His solution was to master magic. Despite magic was non-existent in his world, Sid move forward regardless.

At some point in his teenage years, he saved his classmate, Akane Nishino from kidnappers.

One night while he was training, Sid discovered a light. Believing it to be the magic he long seek, he ran towards it. Unfortunately, that light belonged to a truck and he was ran over, killing him in the process.

He was then reincarnated into another world where magic does exist. Sid was the son of a noble Kagenou family who had produced a long line of powerful swordsmen known as spellswords. Remembering his old life, Sid maintained his cover as an ordinary person, even fooling his parents and older sister who trained him with swordsmanship.

Every night, Sid snuck out of his home and hunt down bandits that were within his vicinity to hone his skills, even rescuing a young Princess Rose from one of them. On a fateful night, after killing another horde of bandits using his new slime suit, Sid discovered a mutated elf girl caused by Demonic Possession. Seeing as an opportunity to improve himself, Sid used the girl and experimented on her and in doing so, restoring the girl to her beautiful form.

After the girl thanked him and vowed servitude to him, Sid decided to have her enter his world. He fabricated a story, telling the girl that she was a descendant of the Three Heroes whose enemy, Diabolos placed a curse on them and their progeny and that a cult that worshiped Diabolos kept the legend a secret to ensure these children of the heroes will fade away. The girl, which Sid named Alpha, believed him and joined Sid in his quest to eliminate the cult called the Order of Diablos. Thus, Shadow Garden was born.

Assault on Viscount Olba
At the age of 13 year old, Sid learned that his sister, Claire was kidnapped much to his parents' dismay. After leaving his parents, Sid meets up with Beta who informs him that she and the rest of Shadow Garden are pouring all their resources into finding Claire. Although he has already decided that finding his sister was a lost cause, Sid chose to entertain his subordinate. When Beta mapped out potential hideouts where Claire might be, Sid randomly chose a spot. This act actually lead to the place where his sister was at.

During night time, Shadow Garden assaulted the base but Sid got separated from them, getting lost and somehow found his way to the underground lair. There, he encountered Viscount Olba. Despite being empowered, Olba was swiftly defeated by Sid. With that done, Sid and Shadow Garden rescues Claire and went home.

Kidnapping of Princess Alexia
When he was 15 years old, Sid enrolled into Midgar Royal Spellsword Academy. There, he befriended Hyoro and Jaga. The three made a bet where the loser must be penalized by having to confess to Princess Alexia. Sid lost the bet and was the one to do it but somehow, Alexia accepts the confession and the two start a relationship. At first confused but Sid then realizes that he was being used by the princess to prevent unwanted advancements. He initially wanted to end the relationship but Alexia bribes him to continue the facade and he accepts it in order to accomplish his dreams.

Despite their relationship had a rocky start, Sid and Alexia did came to respect each other. Not long after, Alexia disappears and Sid became a priority suspect. He contacts Shadow Garden and informs them of his predicament. As they went out to search for the princess, Sid and Beta confront some corrupt knights who intend to to frame him for Alexia's kidnapping. Sid kills the unknowing knights and he and Beta head out to join their comrades. Sid, now going as Shadow, discovers Alexia's whereabouts and saves her from Zenon. The battle between the two lean towards more on Shadow's favor causing the cult member to empower himself to defeat him. Shadow grew bored and irritated at his opponent's feeble attempts and decides to kill him, destroying the building they were in as well.

With Alexia rescued, Sid was removed of all suspicions and was set free. Sid meets Alexia on the roof top and the princess wants to continue their relationship for a while longer. After being put through so much thanks to the princess, Sid rudely declines earning Alexia's wrath.

Midgar Academy Terrorist Attack
After recovering from Alexia's attacks, Sid and his friends head to a shop belonging to Mitsugoshi Co to buy chocolates. When they arrived, a beautiful attendant politely asks Sid to look into a questionnaire they prepared and escorts him to a room much to Hyoro and Jaga's dismay. It turns out to be a meeting between Shadow Garden members. Sid was informed by Gamma about the recent attacks perpetrated by impostors who are pretending to belong to Shadow Garden. He declares to them he has a lead although he believes that Alexia was responsible. Sid and Nyuu discover and capture one of the impostors.

After his friends failed in their confessions, Sid randomly gave his chocolate to Sherry Barnett. He then participated in a duel between him and Rose Oriana but despite losing on purpose, Rose fell for him as well. When the Order of Diabolos attacked Midgar Academy, Sid took a blow meant for Rose causing everyone to believe he perished. Once they left, Sid revives himself and start eliminating most of the terrorists.

He discovers Sherry and helps her in saving the students. Sid resumes as Shadows and leads Shadow Garden in finishing off the stragglers before taking care of Nelson Barnett. Despite Nelson monologues that he succeeds in framing Shadow Garden for the crime, Shadow could only laugh at him, boasting that he and his organization will thrive despite the world now against them. Shadow disembowels Nelson but Sherry arrives to see the death of her step-father while remain unknown to his crimes. After the attack, Sid says farewell to Sherry.

Holy Ground Infiltration
Sid was invited by Alpha to help in their mission to infiltrate the Holy Ground. During the Trial of the Goddess, he battles Aurora and bests her. After escaping, he finds himself helping the Witch of Calamity in freeing her, destroying the Holy Ground along the way.

God of War Tournament
Sid decides to participate in the God of War Tournament in order to make progress of his dreams in becoming the Eminence in Shadow. With the help of Nyuu, he disguises himself as Jimina, an unremarkable spellsword. Despite being deemed as a lost cause, Jimina gladly proves them wrong and defeats many powerful spellswords with amazing ease.

When informed about Rose's alleged attack on her fiancee, Sid merely believes this to be a lovers spat but helps out anyway. He finds the princess and grants her his power to make a difference.

Near the end of the tournament, Jimina easily defeats Annerose and Princess Iris before forfeiting the tournament to help Rose in escaping after she stops Doem's plot in starting a war between Midgar and Oriana. Jimina reveals himself as Shadow leading to a confrontation between him and Beatrix and Iris. He defeats them, scaring the entire world.

Red Moon Incident
After having a dinner with Claire, Sid was dragged by his sister to the Lawless City in order to build up his credentials. While there, he learned about the Queen of Blood's treasure and decides to steal it for himself. When the Red Moon occurred, he took his chance and had outside, killing ghouls and vampires that were in his way all the while improving his image in the eyes of the citizens.

Once he reaches the Red Tower, he easily kills off Crimson before discovering the treasure. He later attempts to protect it when Elizabeth awakens. Seeing that the Queen of Blood desires freedom, Sid obliges by curing her of her vampirism, restoring her to human form.

After the Red Moon incident was finally over, he meets up with Yukime, having made a deal with her.

Mitsugoshi Co vs Great Commerce Alliance
Seeing Yukime as the key in making his dreams come true, Sid discards his Shadow persona and became John Smith, Yukime's unknown partner. He begins advising Yukime, helping her in crippling both Mitsugoshi Co and the Great Commerce Alliance. He even had a hand in sabotaging his own organization's progress including sending Delta away to eliminate Tyrant. When Beta came to meet him, Sid gave her a cipher which contains only random ramblings.

The situation all leads up to his fight with Alpha and her defeat. Despite causing huge loss of morale within Shadow Garden, Sid unknowingly undone this as his cipher was translated and his subordinates interpret his writing as a message telling them that he was helping them sabotage their rivals, including ordering them to steal the gold that he wanted to fund his dreams. When he arrives to meet Yukime, he learns of her disappearance and the theft of the gold.

An enraged Sid fights Gettan and saves Yukime, removing the scar from her back. Although he fails to achieve his goal, Sid's actions help boost Shadow Garden's forces with Yukime joining them to eliminate the Order of Diabolos. Under the mistaken belief that Alpha hates him, Sid decides to go away until she calms down.

Abilities
Having trained since a very young age, Sid has reached peak human condition able to lift things with ease and run at a very fast pace. After being reincarnated into another world, his abilities has reached to new heights. He now runs in a supernatural speed that many skilled swordsman could not even detect him before they are killed off.

Having being born from the Kagenou family, he is knowledgeable about swordsmanship. He however is most adept in hand to hand combat. Even without magic, he is still a deadly threat.

He possesses high levels of magic in his body due to the various experiments he carried out since childhood. When released, it causes a phenomenon that affects the weather. His signature technique is 'I AM ATOMIC!' where he pours much of his power into his blade. Once struck against its target, he or she will disintegrate followed by an explosion that can shake the land to pieces.

Sid is also a master actor, having been acting as a clueless and weak young man for years.

Because of the aforementioned feats he has done, he is arguably the most powerful swordsman in the world.

Trivia
Sid has the following possessions''. ''
 * Vintage wine : This is rare and it comes from Portau in southwestern France. It's worth 900,000 Zeny
 * Munch’s ‘The Scream’ : It is known as a phantom treasure that cannot be attained regardless of how much wealth one is willing to offer.
 * Antic Lamp