Vertical 9:16. Japanese-inspired layered screenprint literary illustration. At the threshold of a dense cedar forest, a solitary fifteen-year-old Japanese boy with a dark backpack rests one hand on a smooth round entrance stone. A black cat sits beside the stone, looking past him toward a quiet modernist library near the sea. Through the stylized branches, dozens of small silver fish fall from a clear cobalt sky above the distant shoreline, while one narrow forest path disappears into luminous mist.

Build the image from opaque spot-color layers with clean overlaps, decorative asymmetry and deliberate negative space. Deep cobalt, peacock teal, malachite, vermilion and warm cream, with antique gold treated as a separate metallic ink layer. Matte paper grain, rhythmic branch silhouettes and natural adolescent anatomy. Mysterious and lucid, no anime, no title, no readable text, no border, no cover layout.