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One approach to this is to adopt a 1st person "minor character narrator" -- a character who is peripheral to the plot, but is an observer. If he/she doesn't know who your mystery character is or his/her significance, the reader can't, and it doesn't get awkward to hide what the narrator character doesn't know.

An example of this is Aronax in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea -- the main plot involves Nemo vs. the world, but Aronax knows only what he observes about Nemo and the Nautilus. He's involved, but peripheral to the main action.

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