奈良・春日大社 Featured spirit: Roku-no-mai · Summer · 2026-05-07

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Magazine-poster hook (Nomura mode). Photo-real wide of Nara Park at early morning; Tōdai-ji Great Buddha hall in the background; sika deer wandering freely on dewy grass. Baked-in vertical brush-kanji title strip down the right side: '奈良・春日大社'. The deer shadow from ch01's alley now stands in full morning light — Roku-no-mai turns to face the camera in the top panel. / Tighter two-shot of Ren and Compass walking right; the wooden takoyaki-shaped charm on Ren's backpack strap visible.

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Single-eye intensity panel (Nomura mode): Compass's amber eye fills the panel; the cyan holographic prefecture-map outline reflected across her iris. A faint cyan flicker — her chapter glitch. / Detail of the holographic map: translucent cyan wireframe outline of this prefecture, key features highlighted in gold.

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Tatsu photo-real medium-wide of the inner Kasuga Taisha approach at full mid-morning: rows of moss-furred stone lanterns vanishing into the cedar forest, dewy moss bright green, a single fawn lying curled at the base of one lantern; the Tōdai-ji rooftop just visible above the cedars in the far background / Nekokurage decorative close-up of a temple priest's weathered hand offering a single fawn-shaped paper omikuji-fortune from a small lacquer tray; the priest's white sleeve cuff embroidered with a sika-deer crest visible in the upper edge; tiny printed gold characters on the omikuji legible if examined closely

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Two-shot of Compass and Ren reacting. The grandmother-fragment line lands here as a quiet beat. Compass's holo flickers behind her hand. / Reaction close-up on Ren. The wooden charm on his backpack catches light and glints cyan-pink for half a beat — visible to the reader. / extreme-close environmental beat: warm-amber stone-paved approach with a few scattered sika-deer hoof-prints clearly visible in the soft dust; the toe of Ren's off-white low-top sneaker just entering the panel from the right edge

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ECU at eye-level on a single fawn-shaped paper omikuji-fortune resting on the moss; in the surface of the paper, Roku-no-mai's chibi-mode face has appeared with cervid ears flopping comically, holding a tiny rice-cracker (deer senbei) in both palms with pleading-puppy eyes — Nekokurage chibi-cut-in signature / cut to Ren's startled eye at eye-level extreme close-up; the omikuji's chibi face reflected as a tiny smudge across his pupil; the wooden takoyaki-shaped charm on his backpack strap just visible at the panel's lower-right edge — and the charm is glowing faint cyan-pink for the first time in the chapter

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Tight on Ren, startled exclamation. Speech bubble area in the top-center holds his shouted line. / Roku-no-mai fully on-model now. CRUCIALLY: spirit's eyes locked on the wooden charm on Ren's backpack strap, not on Ren. Spirit recognition.

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Roku-no-mai introduces themselves. Chibi cut-in inset upper-right: cat-eared fawn chibi with floppy ears, holding a tiny senbei (deer cracker), pleading-puppy eyes for half a beat. / Compass's reaction: calmly attentive, but her holo flickers visibly behind her hand. Composure cracks at the edges. / Detail of the spirit's presence in the scene + the wooden charm on Ren's strap.

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JJK-mode named-technique callout panel. Baked-in stylized vertical brush-kanji '魂寄せ' (Tamayose — Soul-Calling) down the right side. Compass formally acknowledges Roku-no-mai. / pull back to a wider three-shot at low-angle: Compass, Ren, and Roku-no-mai arranged together in front of the Kasuga lantern grove; CRUCIAL detail — a passing temple priest in the background is rendered frozen mid-step, his sleeve mid-flutter, because the named-technique briefly pauses the mortal world while the spirit is acknowledged; sika deer in the mid-ground are also still

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extreme-wide overhead at full mid-morning of the entire Kasuga lantern-path approach: thousands of moss-stone lanterns lining the avenue toward the Tōdai-ji great hall; the cedar canopy filtering long beams of gold light; tiny pilgrims and tourists scattered along the path; the great Buddha hall rooftop visible at the panel's far end / medium-wide of Compass, Ren, and Roku-no-mai walking together along the moss-stone lantern path; Roku-no-mai's omikuji slip lifted by a soft breeze trailing slightly behind her like a kite-tail; sika deer flanking the path on either side

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Three-shot of Compass, Ren, and Roku-no-mai in motion. / Miura-mode emotional close-up on Ren. The chapter's grief crack — a fragment of his grandmother resurfacing. / Foreground silhouette or detail to absorb the UI overlay zone.

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Miura-mode two-shot of Compass and Ren resting in a quiet location. Compass's holo (in her lap) shows a cyan thread extending east toward the next prefecture — a glitch she hides. / quiet environmental detail: the reflection of two figures in a small lacquered shrine offering-bowl filled with rainwater; a single petal of cedar-leaf has fallen into the bowl and ripples once, the wave reaching the figures' reflections at the panel's edge

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close-up of Roku-no-mai standing alone at a small offering-altar in front of a Kasuga sub-shrine; her deer-mask now pulled fully down over her face for the first time in the chapter (a moment of formal reverence); her palms folded around the omikuji at her chest; a single thin trail of warm-amber tear-trace visible below the mask's right eye-slit / tiny detail beat: the omikuji slip in her hands has a single fawn-shape stamped on it in faded gold ink; the corner of the slip is creased and worn — clearly an old paper, kept for decades; Ren's handwriting from when he was four years old is faintly visible as a single mark in the lower corner

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OTS from Ren's shoulder. Compass with the holographic map blooming. Narration '次は——'. / high-angle close-up of the holo map detail: a small gold pin lights up over Nara below the wireframe's existing Osaka pin; Compass's slender fingertips trail cyan particles around the rim; faintly, a thin cyan thread extends EAST from the new Nara pin toward the Kyoto area, with the suggestion of a fox-tail silhouette where it terminates

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tight close-up of the holo wireframe: the cyan thread arcing east from the Nara pin across Honshu's coastline toward the Kyoto area; the thread pulses softly in time with a faint cyan-pink reflection from Ren's wooden charm visible at the panel's bottom edge — confirming the link between the charm and the spirit-network / Single-eye intensity panel: Compass's eye reflecting the cyan thread; Roku-no-mai visible at panel edge watching. / Compass's palm + thread terminus; quiet exchange.

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Roku-no-mai alert, gaze locked past Compass and Ren toward something approaching from the next prefecture. / Reaction close-up — spirit's eyes blown wide.

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Tatsu photo-real medium shot at eye level facing the eastern bend of the cedar path approaching the perimeter of Kasuga; in the left foreground partially out of focus and rim-lit only stand Compass and Ren with their backs three-quarters toward the camera; deeper in the path, in the mid-ground but half-clipped by the right edge of the panel: a slim fox-mask silhouette pauses just at the path's bend — an Inari shrine torii's orange torch-flame flickers once at the bend's edge and is gone, leaving only the suggestion of vermilion against the deepening cedar-shadow / Close-up of Roku-no-mai in delighted half-whisper — the line carries this chapter's earned weight (awe + relief + recognition). / Empty space where the next-prefecture shadow just was + Compass's holo showing a NEW pin lighting up; her glitch flickers harder.

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Pinned: this chapter's prefecture. Arc traces the journey from the previous chapter.