Dark Occult Graphic Novel Page

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Goal: Create a dark graphic-novel comic page in Russian about how cinematic black-magic scenes look epic, while real occult work feels mundane and unpleasant. Canvas: Vertical comic page, approximately 4:5 aspect ratio, with thick black gutters and a thin black outer border. Use gritty seinen manga / European graphic novel rendering, muted browns, charcoal blacks, sickly candlelight, storm-blue lightning, heavy crosshatching, worn paper texture, cinematic horror mood. Layout: Use exactly 10 panels. Row 1 has 2 panels: a wide left panel showing an epic ritual scene, and a narrower right panel close-up of a young man watching. Row 2 has 3 equal small panels: bloody hand, lightning, old Latin book. Row 3 has 1 full-width panel: two people sitting at a rustic kitchen table by kerosene lamp. Row 4 has 3 panels: close-up of the contractor, hanging dried herbs, old hand on wooden table. Row 5 has 1 full-width panel: close-up of the young man in shadow, looking disturbed. Include exactly 9 white rectangular narration boxes with black uppercase Russian text, placed near the upper-left area of their respective panels. Text content: Use these exact caption boxes, in order from top to bottom and left to right: 1) ЗНАЕТЕ, В ФИЛЬМАХ ПРО МАГИЮ СДЕЛКИ С ПОТУСТОРОННИМИ СИЛАМИ ВСЕГДА ВЫГЛЯДЯТ ЭПИЧНО: 2) "КРОВЬ," 3) "МОЛНИИ," 4) "ЛАТЫНЬ ЗАДОМ НАПЕРЁД." 5) В РЕАЛЬНОСТИ ЖЕ ЭТО ПРОИСХОДИТ НА ДАЧНОЙ КУХНЕ, ПРИ СВЕТЕ КЕРОСИНКИ, 6) "И ОТ ТВОЕГО КОНТРАГЕНТА ПАХНЕТ НЕ СЕРОЙ," 7) "А СУШЁНЫМИ ТРАВАМИ" 8) "И СТАРЫМ ДЕРЕВОМ." 9) И ЭТО, СКАЖУ Я ВАМ, КУДА СТРАШНЕЕ. Subject details: The main character is a slim pale young man with messy black hair, wearing a rumpled white button-up shirt. In the epic ritual panel, show a hooded black-robed figure seated before a glowing pentagram circle, arms spread, surrounded by skulls, candles, occult clutter, storm clouds, and jagged lightning. In the realistic kitchen panels, show the same young man seated opposite an elderly rustic occult contractor in a patterned worn sweater at a rough wooden table, with shelves of jars, old cabinets, a small window showing night outside, a kerosene lamp, a bowl, a teacup, and a jar of red dried contents. The atmosphere should be cramped, damp, and rural rather than glamorous. Censor/obscuration details: Add soft-edged vertical brown blur blocks obscuring the face of the young man in the top-right panel, the contractor's face in the wide kitchen panel, the contractor close-up in row 4 panel 1, and a large vertical brown blur covering the lower center area across the dried-herbs panel and part of the final bottom panel, as if sensitive details were intentionally blurred. Panel-by-panel visual list: 1) wide ritual with hooded sorcerer, pentagram, skull, lightning; 2) side close-up of young man's head and shoulder in darkness; 3) bloody fingers dragging across stone with blood drops; 4) forked lightning in a storm sky; 5) aged book page with reversed-looking Latin-like lettering; 6) full-width rustic kitchen conversation under kerosene lamp; 7) contractor close-up with caption and face obscured; 8) bunches of dried herbs hanging above jars, partly obscured by blur; 9) wrinkled old hand resting on a wood tabletop; 10) wide close-up of the young man in shadow, tense and frightened. Constraints: Keep the page readable as a single comic page, maintain thick black gutters, use no speech balloons, no extra captions beyond the 9 listed, no modern objects, no watermark, no clean digital cartoon style.