Tight extreme close-up on the round basin mirror in Yujin's dorm. Inside the mirror: Yujin's face — soft black hair, ash-grey strand, dark-brown eyes — but the reflection is smiling, a small still symmetric smile that does not match anythin

Top: Yujin's full face now visible, frozen, towel dropped to his collarbone, dark-brown eyes wide and fixed on the mirror, posture still the unawakened soft curve. Bottom: tight on the mirrored mouth — lips parted, a soundless syllable shap

Yujin both hands on the lip of the basin, head bowed, hair forward, ash-grey strand visible. The water in the basin trembles. The lamp light skews — pastel cream walls now have a faint pale-blue cast intruding. The sparkle has thinned. The

Three flashback panels, each in a slightly cooler pastel palette than the present — desaturated, washed, dreamlike. Panel 1: the interior of a small magistrate's office, candle on a paper-strewn desk, a young man in dark robes (Yujin, faint

Three more flashback panels, same desaturated pastel-flashback palette. Panel 1: a forest path, Yujin in a traveler's hooded cloak, lunging with a small kitchen knife at Arin, who is calmly catching his wrist — her violet eyes wet but stead

Same dorm room, same basin, same pastel cream walls and warm lamp and faint sparkle. But Yujin is straightening up, very slowly, hands releasing the basin's edge. His shoulders have squared. His head has come level. The ash-grey strand is b

Top: Yujin (now visually transitioning to awakened — square shoulders, level head, hand pushing the ash-grey strand back) standing in front of the basin, looking into the mirror. Bottom: tight on the mirror's surface — Yujin's reflected fac

Wider room shot. The lamp is now turned very low, casting only a small pool of warm light. Yujin (awakened) sits on the edge of his narrow cot, elbows on his knees, one hand pressed flat over his mouth. His shoulders shake once with a singl

Top: Yujin (awakened) lying flat on the cot in the dark, eyes wide open and calm, hands folded on his chest the way a body is folded for burial. The room is mostly dark, only thin moonlight from the small window. Bottom: extreme close-up on

View from outside Yujin's dorm window, looking in. Cherry petals drifting against the glass. Inside: the small lamp turned low, Yujin lying on his cot in soft sleep clothes, eyes open and calm, hands folded. The pastel romance palette holds

Dawn. Yujin (awakened) stands fully dressed in his cream academy uniform, hand on the brass doorknob of his dorm room. Seen from behind in 3/4. The shoulders are square. The head is level. The right hand at his side is in unconscious stilln