A first-person POV medium shot from the protagonist's perspective, capturing a climactic moment of revelation in a cathedral courtyard at dawn. In the center, a young bespectacled boy with messy brown hair stands tall against an iron-banded wall, his hood thrown back. He holds a brown leather ledger with both hands, raising it half-open as crimson light spills from the weathered pages like fire. His round wire-frame glasses reflect red on the left lens and violet on the right, while his irises blaze with deep crimson rings around dark brown pupils. Visible crimson root-veins climb his neck, right cheekbone, and ear. To his side, a tall Shadow Walker survivor kneels on one knee, head bowed in fealty, with an unsheathed blade grounded. Opposite them, a Council envoy in grey robes staggers back, hands raised in shock. Behind an iron gate, three record-keeper silhouettes stand in shadow near a dark spiral staircase. A sharp blade of crimson dawn light washes across the courtyard stone and the boy's face. The atmosphere is one of ultimate confrontation and tension, rendered in a high-quality anime style with high contrast and dramatic lighting.