Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute!

Shadowbrokers are those who go unnoticed, posing as unremarkable people, when in truth, they control everything from behind the scenes. Sid wants to be someone just like that more than anything, and something as insignificant as boring reality isn't going to get in his way! He trains in secret every single night, preparing for his eventual rise to power—only to denied his destiny by a run-of-the-mill (yet deadly) traffic accident. But when he wakes up in a another world and suddenly finds himself at the head of an actual secret organization doing battle with evil in the shadows, he'll finally get a chance to act out all of his delusional fantasies! (Source: Yen Press)

Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute! ranked third, seventh, and 10th in the 2020, 2024, and 2025 Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! for the Books division, respectively. The series has been published in English as The Eminence in Shadow by Yen Press under the Yen On imprint since August 11, 2020.