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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 + Artyom + Misha + Lastochka + 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. The FIRST attached image is the PREVIOUS FRAME — match its light, the ground circle and the staging. The SECOND attached sheet is KIRILL: copy him exactly — about eighteen, round young face, heavy straight dark-brown fringe, OCHRE leather armor with round shoulder pads and dark-red folk embroidery, a DARK-RED wool scarf-hood, cream linen shirt, wide belt with pouches. 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»: The towering Devil «The Unmaker of Worlds» stands on one side of the frame, and EVERY DEFENDER IS TURNED TOWARD HIM — bodies squared to the demon, weapons pointed at him, eyes on him, none of them facing the viewer or the camera. Kirill «Tvyordaya Ruka» alone runs the other way, out of the rune circle in the foreground, the small pale-teal return crystal — no bigger than his fist — held against his chest in ONE hand, his face set and stubborn; he is the only one whose back is to the demon. The magic circle lies CARVED FLAT IN THE STONE GROUND, a teal ellipse of runes guttering out. Behind Kirill the others hold a defensive line FACING THE DEMON: Artyom «Serdtse» stands squared to the demon, SHIELDING Lastochka «the Swallow» WITH HIS BODY, gripping his naginata IN BOTH HANDS LIKE A SPEAR AT THE READY — front hand forward on the shaft just below the blade collar, rear hand back near the butt of the shaft, elbows bent, the long shaft angled up and across his body, the curved blade levelled and aimed straight at the demon; Lastochka tucked BEHIND his shoulder, both hands pressed to her chest, peering past him at the demon; Misha «The Eye» in his clear-framed glasses in a low guard, both hands on his village sword, blade raised toward the demon; Igor «Klinok», both arms whole, furthest forward, katana in a two-handed guard, staring the demon down. Every character has exactly two arms, both visible and doing one clear thing — no reaching, no flailing, no open empty palms. The Devil holds his heavy demon sabre — broad, deeply curved black-iron blade with a molten ember vein, horned SPLIT CROSSGUARD hilt, NO round tsuba. Cold violet-green forest, teal ground light, ember-red demon. Mood: the plan falls apart — they brace instead of fleeing. NEGATIVE: no ornamental frame, no border, no margins, no 3D rendered depth, no photoreal skin, no gloss, no realistic render, no Latin text, no defenders facing the viewer, no backs turned to the demon except Kirill, no weapons pointed away from the demon, no one-handed naginata, no naginata held like a flag or staff, no reaching arms, no flailing limbs, no extra arms, no big crystal, no curly hair on Kirill, no white shirt without armor, no vertical magic circle, no katana in the demon's hand, no tsuba on the demon's sword, no missing arm, no broken katana.