oh boy! I felt the exact same way when reading first 30-ish chapters of Domekano (author's previous work), before she deliberately destroy me with drama bombardment and dropped it.
Sasuga Kei is just that brilliant
calm down, you make too much credit for Cid. he might be just not thinking abt it that much.
there's a lot of misunderstanding and misconception from him before.
I think it's already established that Jack is Cid
Kanade is the joke character for this arc (since Hyoro and Jaga won't appear here), also mob example for him