Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute!

Like most children, he grew up admiring heroes—but while others idolized the figures bathed in glory, one young man was drawn to a different kind of strength: the powers that operated from the shadows. Ninjas, rogues, mysterious mentors lurking behind the scenes—these were the archetypes he revered. And so he devoted himself to that ideal, concealing his true abilities behind the unremarkable existence of an ordinary bystander by day while throwing himself into punishing training under the cover of night. At last, he is reborn into another world, where he finally obtains the ultimate power he always sought. Yet his dream was never fame in the spotlight; he merely intends to playact as a hidden mastermind, savoring the fantasy from the sidelines. There is just one problem: everyone around him takes the act far more seriously than he ever anticipated. His devoted subordinates swallow the pretense whole, and a colossal organization operating in the shadows finds itself unwittingly trampled beneath his feet. This is the story of a boy who adored the powers of the shadows—a boy whose innocent performance may ultimately see him reigning over the world of shadows in another world.