A first-person POV medium shot from the protagonist's perspective inside a cramped, dimly lit rented room above a tavern, looking toward a young boy seated on a low stool by a small square window. The boy has messy brown hair and wears round wire-frame glasses and a dark hooded cloak drawn halfway over his head; his hands rest palms-up on his knees, revealing thin, dark crimson root-like veins climbing from his wrists to mid-forearms. His brown irises contain a subtle, thin crimson ring around the pupils, reflecting the faint moonlight. Beside him, a dark demon sword is propped against the wall, its runes now dormant. A sliver of paper under the door glows like charcoal embers, while outside the cracked window, a distant cathedral spire glows reddish against a pre-dawn haze. The scene is rendered in a high-quality anime style with a color palette of deep blues contrasted by fading crimson haze. The lighting is soft and moody, conveying an intimate, exhausted but resolute atmosphere of calm aftermath.