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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 + Artyom + Misha + Kirill + Lastochka): same bold ink linework, flat gouache fills, lubok / icon flatness, ornament. Keep every character exactly on-model — same face, hair, proportions, costume, ornament. The FIRST attached image is the PREVIOUS FRAME. Match it: the same missing sword arm on the same side of his body, the same torn empty sleeve, the same armor damage and light. 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: «Time To Die»: Igor «Klinok» is DOWN ON THE GROUND, fallen on his back among the stones, his sword arm gone and that shoulder a torn empty sleeve with flat red folk ribbons — one arm only. The Devil «The Unmaker of Worlds» strides over him toward the rune circle, and from the ground Igor rams the broken katana STRAIGHT DOWN THROUGH THE DEVIL'S CLOVEN HOOF into the earth: the palm-long jagged stub of steel punches through the hoof, the cord-wrapped handle standing upright out of it like a driven nail, the hoof pinned to the stone so the demon is stopped mid-stride. Igor shouts up at him, teeth bared. The magic circle is CARVED FLAT INTO THE GROUND, lying on the stone floor of the clearing and seen in perspective as a wide teal ELLIPSE around the feet of the four who stand inside it — never a vertical ring, never a round window or portal hanging in the air. From that circle on the ground a column of teal light rises STRAIGHT UP, and inside it Artyom «Serdtse», Misha «The Eye», Kirill «Tvyordaya Ruka» and Lastochka «the Swallow» stand on the ground and dissolve upward, all four FACING THE VIEWER AND FACING IGOR, faces fully visible and lit teal, mouths open in horror, arms reaching toward him. The Devil carries 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, with NO round tsuba and NO Japanese wrapping. Ember-red and soot-black against teal circle light. Mood: the last blow of a dying man. NEGATIVE: no ornamental frame, no border, no margins, no 3D rendered depth, no photoreal skin, no gloss, no realistic render, no Latin text, no vertical magic circle, no ring standing in the air, no portal window, no floating figures, no figures seen from behind in the circle, no backs turned to the viewer, no standing hero, no kneeling hero, no second arm, no restored arm, no whole katana, no crystal, no katana in the demon's hand, no tsuba on the demon's sword, no realistic gore.