The day of Levi's coronation came, and the throne room was filled with nobles and the palace staff. At the front of the room, by the thrones (actually more like decorative pillows), stood Mikasa, Eren, Levi, and the head monk at Inari's temple. The monk spoke for a long time, about how tragic the emperor's death was, and how Levi will take his place as leader. The monk also spoke of how Eren would be becoming empress.
As the monk was about to place the emperor's head piece on Levi's head, there was a deep growl and the nobles in the room quickly separated to show a man sitting among the nobles, with a yellow fox's teeth buried in his arm, three tails on end and still growling as the man tried to pry him off.
"Armin?" Mikasa asked. The fox glanced at her with big, blue eyes. Mikasa sniffed the air subtly, and what she smelled made her eyes narrow. "Bring him here." She said, stepping down slightly from the raised area of the floor that the emperor sat on. Armin did so, pulling the man by his arm until he was kneeling before the princess.
To say the entire room was confused would be an understatement. Mikasa bent down slightly.
"I suggest you hand over your weapon, assassin." There was a collective gasp from the nobles and Eren, the monk stayed silent, but still quite shocked, and Levi's eyes narrowed.
"He's come to kill the new emperor?" A noble asked.
"No." Mikasa said once she got the weapon, a kunai, in her hand. "He's after Eren." Mikasa announced. Sniffing the blade slightly, she frowned. "It's the same poison that killed my father."
"What do you mean?" Levi asked. "That he's after Eren?" Levi's face was still calm, besides his narrowed eyes, as was his voice, though it bordered on anger.
"Father told me, before he passed, that the person that had attacked was not after his life, but Eren's. Our father reacted before thinking and shielded her. And it seems that whoever hired our assassin was fine with the casualty to have hired them again to attack Eren now." Levi walked over then.
"You mean to tell me, that our father died, because someone is trying to kill my wife?" Levi said, the word 'wife' feeling weird on his tongue. "And child?" Levi continued. Mikasa nodded. Levi's face completely relaxed, which some thought was odd, but Mikasa quickly stepped back, as did Armin.
"Is the coronation over?" Levi asked, looking to the monk. He shrugged lightly.
"Technically, no. But you are still the emperor, and have been since your father's passing. The coronation is a public display of you coming to power." The monk explained. Levi nodded once before turning back to the assassin.
"So, who hired you?" Levi asked, motioning for Mikasa and Armin to go by Eren to protect her.
"It is an assassin's code to never speak of his clients." The assassin said in a low voice.
"I'll ask you one more time. Who hired you?" Levi's voice remained eerily calm, but when the man refused again, that calmness evaporated as Levi's foot came in contact with the man's face, knocking a tooth across the room. Levi's face remained calm, but the room could see the rage flaring up in his eyes.
"Who." A kick to the stomach. "Hired." A kick to the face again. "You?" And a kick to the side. Every Time the assassin didn't answer, Levi delivered a quick, painful kick to a random spot on his body, even stomping once the assassin was low enough to the ground. On a particularly hard kick, gold coins fell from the assassin's clothing, and Armin was quick to run over and sniff it, before scanning the room and seeing one particular noble looking paler than the rest.
"I found him." Armin said once he shifted back into his Kitsune form, eyes locked with the man. Levi stopped his barrage on the assassin.
"Who?" Levi asked, voice like ice and literally made the room shiver.
"Lord Kiku." Armin said, and when all eyes turned to the noble that was in question, he tried to run. However, a black shadow flickered through the room, and he was pinned to the floor by Mikasa. Everyone was baffled by her speed as she brought Kiku forward and next to the assassin. Levi's glare had almost froze Kiku in place.
"Why did you hire an assassin to kill Eren?" Levi asked, voice full of authority and a 'bull shit me, you die' undertone.
"S-She disgraced me. She disrespected me. No woman should speak to a man, especially of a higher class, the way she did! It is dishonorable and-"
"Enough." Levi said, voice a normal tone but strong enough to silence the entire room, maybe even the entire village. "Attacking Eren, as the future empress, is treason." Levi said, letting those words sink in before continuing. "Killing Eren would also result in killing our unborn child, which would be the future emperor or empress, which could also be considered treason." Another moment to let that sink in. "And in your process of trying killing Eren, you killed my father, which is treason."
"I meant no disrespect to the royal house, but that GIRL-"
"Isn't really a girl." Armin said with a shrug. The room was dead quiet, staring at him. "What? He isn't."
"Armin!" Eren said, looking around quickly.
"He's right though." Levi said, crossing his arms. "As the new emperor, I planned on making the public know as soon as time would allow."
"What do you mean that Lady Eren isn't a girl? She's with child." One of Eren's instructor's said. Levi nodded.
"Yes, Eren is with child. But Eren is not female, nor is he human." That made the entire room shut up.
"W-What do you mean?" Kiku asked from the floor.
"Simple." Levi said. "I married a Kitsune." The outraged cries filled the room quickly as Eren just paled. Levi turned to him. "No point keeping up the act, little fox." And Eren sighed, shifting into his Kitsune male form, tails wrapping protectively around his stomach as he glared at Kiku.
"I'm not a demon hunter." The assassin hissed as he glared at Kiku.
"A DEMON!" Kiku roared, everyone either moving away or prepared to attack.
"Put down your weapons." Mikasa said firmly, standing in front of Eren. "Or you might as well kill me too." She said.
"What are you talking about Lady Mikasa?" Erwin asked. "Kitsune are dangerous demons who-"
"Have done absolutely nothing to us." Levi said loudly. "We have never been attacked by Kitsune. Eren just so happened to stumble into our territory on accident while grieving his late mother and got attacked." Levi said. "Speaking of which, that demon that got away last spring." Levi pointed to Eren. "Hid under my porch and lived with me until revealing himself as a demon and willing to bring me an heir. Also vowing to be my guardian."
"Why would you keep such a dangerous-"
"Last I checked." Levi said, glaring down his Commander. "The last 'dangerous' thing Eren did was kill a demon before our wedding. He had helped me kill countless demons on our walks out of the village, and as a fox, has held them off until the hunters arrived to dispatch of it. Him and Armin have both been telling us if a demon was approaching with the intent to hurt us. These Kitsune have done nothing to prove they want to do us harm."
"You've been seduced!" Eren's instructor that had hated Armin so much had said. Levi sighed and looked to Mikasa.
"You take this one." Mikasa nodded.
"No, actually, Kitsune are unable to take people's life force through sexual intercourse." Mikasa said, smirking at Levi and Eren. "It's a myth."
"How would you know?" Erwin asked. Mikasa smiled.
"Well, demons can't seduce other demons, right?" That got the room quiet. "Allow me to explain. My father married a demon, making me half. A Raven Tengu Hanyou, to be exact. My mother was truly in love with my father, and passed after giving birth to me because of it."
"I plan." Levi began. "To try and make peace with demons." Levi said.
"That is an outrage!" Kiku said from the floor. "They-"
"Are more human than you are." Eren barked, before quieting under Levi's gaze.
"Not now, little fox." And Levi turned back to the room. "There are demons that don't wish to cause us harm. Armin, Eren, and Mikasa's mother are perfect examples of this. There are demons that want to harm us, but there are humans that do as well." Levi said, looking directly at Kiku. "We can live in peace with them." Levi said. "If you do not wish to support this, I am sorry to say that you might as well leave. I am going to my room, with my husband. Guards, arrest Kiku for treason. I'll deal with him later." And with that, Levi and Eren went to their room.