Single full-color manga page in modern vibrant anime illustration style, divided into exactly 5 panels in a 2x3 grid layout (top row 2 panels, middle row 2 panels, bottom row 1 wide panel). Bright saturated romantic colors, soft airbrushed shading, no screentones, no black-and-white. Modern Japanese shoujo manga aesthetic with dramatic camera angles and speed lines.
Panel 1 (top-left): A young woman with long bright pink hair, fox ears, golden eyes, and a small heart-shaped hair clip is opening a large wooden double door. She wears an Academy uniform: cream-white fitted jacket with teal-green trim along the seams, pink bow tie at the collar, blue-green plaid pleated skirt, purple thigh-high stockings with exactly ONE thin lighter stripe at the top of each stocking (both stockings identical, no other markings), dark blue loafers. Her nine fox tails trail behind her gently. Speech bubble: "P-Principal? It's me, Ahri~"
Panel 2 (top-right): She steps inside a dimly-lit principal's office with mahogany bookshelves, a leather chair, and large gothic windows letting in golden afternoon sunlight. Dust particles floating in the light beams. Her expression is curious and slightly nervous. Small sound effect: "...creak"
Panel 3 (middle-left): Low-angle dramatic shot of a tall muscular man standing by the window, his back partially turned. He has black spiky hair, wears a red headband with two long flowing red ribbons trailing behind him (with Japanese kanji characters), a long black trench coat with gold dragon embroidery visible on the inside lining, white shirt, black pants, black boots, and black fingerless gloves. His posture is imposing and authoritative. Speech bubble (his voice, deep): "So... you're the one they've been talking about."
Panel 4 (middle-right): Tight close-up of his face as he turns toward her. Sharp masculine jawline, intense serious dark eyes, slight smirk on his lips. His red headband ribbons frame his face. Dramatic shadow on one side of his face. Small sound effect: "fwish" (headband ribbons moving).
Panel 5 (bottom, wide panel): Wide cinematic establishing shot of the two characters face to face in the principal's office, with clear visible space between them. She is on the right side looking up at him with flushed cheeks and wide golden eyes. He is on the left side looking down at her with a stern but intrigued expression. Sunlight from the window backlights them both with a warm golden rim light. Cherry blossom petals drift through the window into the room. Caption box at the very bottom in stylized italic pink font: "And so... their eyes met for the first time." A single small pink heart floats between them. Her nine fox tails fan out horizontally behind her in a balanced spread, each tail clearly visible and separated.
Layout: panels have clean thin black borders, clear gutters between panels, no text or characters cross panel borders, no overlap between figures within the same panel. Style: modern full-color Japanese shoujo manga, vibrant and romantic, soft airbrushed shading, sharp linework, anime-style coloring with bright highlights and dramatic lighting.
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