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STYLE: hand-painted 2D Slavic folk-art animation — Bilibin / lubok / Orthodox-icon sensibility. Bold decorative ink outlines with visible line-weight variation, flat matte gouache color fills (poster-flat, minimal gradients), ornamental folk pattern work, strong readable silhouettes. Flat painted, posterized light — NO photoreal 3D shading, NO gloss. Cinematic 16:9 storyboard frame, high emotional readability. Match the FLAT decorative folk-art look of the attached character sheets (Igor + The Devil): same bold ink linework, flat gouache fills, lubok / icon flatness, ornament. Keep every character exactly on-model — same face, hair, proportions, costume, ornament. FULL-BLEED: fill the entire frame edge to edge. NO ornamental border, NO frame, NO margins. TEXT: no text or lettering in the image. SCENE: «The Next Stroke»: A close shot, a heartbeat after the katana broke, seen from BEHIND Igor «Klinok» — his BACK is to the viewer, his face turned away and not visible. Because we see his back, his right side is on the VIEWER'S LEFT: the empty torn sleeve with its spray of flat red folk ribbons is on the LEFT SIDE OF THE FRAME, and his one whole arm hangs down on the RIGHT SIDE OF THE FRAME. Exactly two shoulders, one arm. He had NO time to block — the Devil's sabre has already swept ACROSS his body in one flat diagonal. The severed arm flies off toward the LEFT SIDE OF THE FRAME, read along its length: cut shoulder in torn cloth at the near end, upper arm, elbow, bracered forearm, and at the far end a single FIST drawn as ONE simple flat closed shape — no separate fingers, no spread hand, just a dark mitten-like fist silhouette wrapped around the katana handle with the palm-long jagged stub of steel above the guard. His body is bent by the blow. Above him the Devil «The Unmaker of Worlds» follows through with THE WEAPON FROM HIS OWN SHEET: a heavy demon sabre — one broad, deeply curved black-iron blade with a molten ember vein burning along its whole length and a wide flaring tip, its hilt a dark horned, antler-like SPLIT CROSSGUARD of iron over a long dark grip. It has NO round tsuba, NO diamond-wrapped Japanese handle, and it is far bigger than a katana. Soot-black and ember-red with blood-ochre ribbons. Mood: the instant the arm is gone. NEGATIVE: no ornamental frame, no border, no margins, no 3D rendered depth, no photoreal skin, no gloss, no realistic render, no Latin text, no facing the viewer, no visible face, no frontal pose, no empty sleeve on the right side of the frame, no spread fingers, no splayed hand, no hands at both ends of the severed arm, no fingers at the shoulder end, no realistic gore, no exposed flesh or bone, no third arm, no extra limbs, no parry, no block, no katana in the demon's hand, no tsuba on the demon's sword, no second katana.