A first-person POV tight perspective shot from within a cloaked shadow, positioned beside a stone archway at the threshold of the Royal Capital's inner courtyard during pre-dawn. A young boy with messy brown hair and round wire-frame glasses is partially visible, his shoulders pressed against the cold stone; he wears a hood half-drawn, his brown pupils glimmering with thin crimson rings reflected in his lenses. One hand is pressed flat against the cold stone wall, while his other hand, hidden inside his cloak, tightly grips the hilt of a demon sword, whose dark blade is etched with faintly glowing crimson runes. Ahead, a short flight of mossy steps leads into a small enclosed square formed by three black stone wings, where silvered dew coats the grass and the cathedral's east flank and tower base stand under a faint violet dawn sky. Two mysterious figures in dark cloaks linger by a locked iron gate at the far end, near an iron spiral staircase. The atmosphere is tense and expectant, rendered in an anime style with a cool violet and grey color palette, high contrast between the deep shadows of the archway and the soft light of the horizon.