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A black and white dark fantasy comic illustration of an adult samurai standing inside a ruined mountain shrine at night. He wears dark layered armor over traditional robes, a weathered haori, armored forearms, heavy sandals, and a torn sash. He stands in a wide defensive stance with his katana drawn horizontally in front of him. His torso twists toward the viewer while his head turns toward something unseen outside the frame. His hair whips across his face as if a powerful presence has just passed through the shrine. Broken wooden beams and shattered shrine statues surround him. Hundreds of paper talismans hang from the ceiling, violently twisting in the wind. A gigantic shadow stretches across the wall behind him without revealing its source. Rendering: brutal black ink, extreme white highlights, coarse halftone, distressed paper, dense grain, dry-brush strokes, sharp architectural linework, fragmented shadows, high-contrast comic-book composition. Mood: supernatural, tense, intimidating, ancient, ominous.