[Reborn!] Up Close

Twenty years is a very long time. He knelt before the emperor on one knee, took his hand, cracked and rough from wielding fire, and kissed the ring. "XANXUS, I will follow you." He had said it from the moment they first met, and he still said it now. He had never changed. He swore his loyalty to the emperor, but never once said he loved him. Ahem, I've gotten carried away with the literary prose. This person can't write a blurb, so I put the opening here and called it one. I wrote this quite a while ago. It was supposed to be a submission, but so much time passed without any news, so I decided to post it here. Theme: