"I guess that's some compensation for routine appointments with a demon! Becoming an esper is involuntary and very awful for a week but after that it's more or less up to us how much power-use backlash to accumulate. Which in my case works out to not flying except for tactical reasons."

"It is generally only really awful for empowered for an evening each week or two, though duration and periodicity can be adjusted for the particular haunting."

"Still adds up to more than a week total after not very long. Does this start when you're born, are people leaving their babies alone with evil demons every Tuesday?"

"No. Typically demons and abilities only manifest late in adolescence, though it can vary."

"Do the demons... talk? What do they want?"

"I would not be surprised to learn that some demons talked though I haven't heard of any specific instances. Insofar as I can determine the intentions of my demon I believe them to be purely malevolent in nature."

"Man, I was expecting you to say that but I'm disappointed anyway."

"If they were anything else they wanted I'd much prefer to give them that. Well, so long as it didn't involve the suffering of other people."

"Yeah, that's how monsters at home seem too and it's very frustrating."

"I do wish the universe - or a universe - would allow for the existence of powers and not for malevolent monsters beyond those that are human."

"Sometimes if our monsters are captured alive and the dungeon that spawned them dies, the monsters can live and are usually harmless afterwards. I have a monster cat. Nothing like that for demons?"

"Nothing that I've heard of."

"Alas."

Indeed.

"Given that you have abilities it would probably be wise for you to present as foreign nobility, assuming you believe you can manage that."

"...well, is anyone going to call me on it if the habits of the nobility of Canada are whatever's convenient for me?"

"I wouldn't expect so, though they might still object to some habits depending on what they are."

"Can I get away with being an emperor or should I lowball it."

"There will probably be confusion about your lack of an entourage or plan to return home if you are supposedly an emperor."

"Am I going to be asked to demonstrate my abilities, actually, like, maybe I could simply not present as having abilities since I don't want to use them when I can't recover from backlash."

"I suppose people might notice if you never use them at all. You can present without - most nobles don't have any."

He's handsome enough people will want to believe he is a noble regardless.

"Is anybody likely to be able to get me home at any point?"

"Such a power might exist but I haven't heard of any? Unless flying very far would suffice."

"No. We know where everything on my planet is, most definitely including London."

"I believe at least one empowered has ventured beyond our planet, though only so far as the moon."

"My planet has a London. Also people there speak English. I think alternate dimension, not another planet in the same contiguous space."