Bird's-eye view of Joon-Ho lying motionless in a large old bed, face turned to one side, pale against white linens. Short disheveled black hair, dark circles even in sleep. The bed's canopy is half-collapsed to one side. The coat of arms on

TOP: Close-up of Joon-Ho's face half-lifted from the pillow, eyes opening to slits — bloodshot whites, dark circles, the expression of a man whose brain is booting up faster than his body wants it to. Face fully visible to camera — sharp ja

TOP: Joon-Ho stands at the warped mirror above the washstand, one hand on the rim of the basin, studying himself. He is in the cream linen shirt, collar undone. Posture is mid-assessment — leaning in slightly, neither alarmed nor pleased ye

TOP: Joon-Ho has put on the charcoal waistcoat. He is doing up the buttons — two of three — with precise deliberateness, not haste. Head up, chin slightly raised. The room behind him in the mirror is dim and bare. The posture is already dif

TOP: The heavy wooden bedroom door swings inward. Sera stands in the doorway, neat and still — grey-and-cream livery, white apron, black hair in a precise service braid. Hands folded at her waist. Oval smooth face, large calm dark eyes, sma

LEFT: Sera in a small, perfect curtsy, face slightly inclined — the oval face, calm dark eyes, the composed small mouth saying the words with zero additional information in expression. Frontal view. BOTTOM of panel has her hands still folde

TOP: Wide establishing shot of the household library — tall dark shelves lined with ledgers and account books, a large dark wood desk covered in open ledger books and ink-stained papers. Grey morning light through tall dusty windows. Aldric

TOP: Exterior establishing shot, grey overcast sky. The Renatus manor — not a ruin, but a house that has been not-maintained for years. Stone facade in need of repointing. The front step has a crack running across it. Above the doorway, car

Extreme close-up on the open ledger, filling the page. The ledger is old — brown-edged paper, dense handwritten columns in an older hand: creditor names, dates, sums in a cramped accounting script. Most entries have a note appended: 'OUTSTA

TOP: Exterior dusk. The manor in grey-blue failing light, all windows dark except one upper window warm with candlelight. The cracked crest barely visible above the door in the dark. It looks like a house someone is just beginning to tend t

TOP: Aldric in the library doorway, carrying a small wooden tray — teacup, small bread loaf. His face is turned toward the desk — face fully visible, frontal three-quarter view — registering Joon-Ho with professional neutrality. BOTTOM: Med

TOP: Close-up on Joon-Ho's hand lifting a sealed letter from the tray. The letter is cream-coloured, sealed with dark grey wax bearing a small legal-firm crest — a pair of scales. The address on the front reads in neat copperplate: 'RENATUS

TOP: The letter fills the panel as a diegetic document, rendered legibly. At the top: a letterhead printed in dark ink reading 'BAEK, REN AND PARTNERS — LEGAL PRACTITIONERS — GRAIN LANE, DUCHY OF MORVEN.' Below that, the formal notice text

Full-bleed: Joon-Ho at the library desk, pen back in hand, leaning over his notebook with the satisfied focus of a man mid-plan. The candle burns beside him. The ledger is open to one side, his pencil-circled entry visible. The letter is tu