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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 (Kirill + Igor + The Devil + Artyom + Misha + 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 its light, ground and staging. 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: «He Will Not Leave»: Kirill «Tvyordaya Ruka» — the youngest, round face, heavy dark-brown fringe, ochre leather armor, dark-red scarf-hood — has caught the pale teal return crystal and is RUNNING OUT of the rune circle carved flat in the stone ground, the crystal clutched unused against his chest, his face set and stubborn, refusing to use it. Behind him the teal runes on the ground flare and fade. Artyom «Serdtse» with his naginata, Misha «The Eye» in his clear-framed glasses and Lastochka «the Swallow» turn after him in shock, mouths open, reaching to stop him. In the foreground Igor «Klinok», BOTH ARMS WHOLE, his katana drawn, stands between them and the towering Devil «The Unmaker of Worlds», who is just recovering, one clawed hand still open where the crystal was struck away. 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 along its length and a wide flaring tip, hilt a dark horned antler-like SPLIT CROSSGUARD over a long dark grip, NO round tsuba, NO Japanese wrapping. Cold violet-green forest, teal ground circle, soot-black and ember-red demon. Mood: the plan falls apart — nobody is leaving. NEGATIVE: no ornamental frame, no border, no margins, no 3D rendered depth, no photoreal skin, no gloss, no realistic render, no Latin text, no missing arm, no severed limb, no broken katana, no vertical magic circle, no ring standing in the air, no katana in the demon's hand, no tsuba on the demon's sword, no realistic gore.