"I believe the strength of an empowered is independent of the strength of a demon, though some claim that stronger empowered have demons which are generally stronger I've never heard the claim that allowing one's demon to grow stronger could influence one's powers."

"Huh.

"I would... really like to be able to do more in this situation than I can reasonably do without access to any other espers to take care of the backlash from using my powers, so if there is any chance there is anyone I should be talking to about traveling to an alternate universe where it's the future et cetera..."

"There is a family with badly underutilized transportation powers, I suppose it's not impossible that one of them can help and is persuadable to do so."

"Why are they badly underutilized?"

"The current head of the family can create portals and only will do so occasionally, in return for political favors, rather than using his power at even a small portion of its economic potential. Most people do not find this as objectionable as I do, I'll admit."

"Okay. So I maybe want to pretend to be noble enough to have valuable favors to dispense in exchange, if nothing else. Given that Canada is already colonized in this timeline I should probably say I'm from somewhere else but I just look Japanese, I don't speak the language or anything - I can actually speak Tagalog, I could pretend to be from the Philippines?"

"I haven't heard of Canada but it's possible I know it by a different name. Nobility from the Philippines would be expected to speak Spanish. I know very little about Japan and expect others to know even less... possibly you should pretend to be from an entirely fictitious country."

"I know French but not Spanish. Canada is presently a French possession and I guess might mostly be going by 'New France' at this point - if the history is like mine. I'd at least expect to run into issues if I used other place names from my home. Toronto. Lake Ontario. Etcetera. So I'll be from, uh... the land of Oz... no, I won't be able to keep a straight face. I can be the... king of Narnia? ...I can just make something up out of nowhere but I worry I'll forget details."

"I would recommend against being a king for the same reasons I recommended against being an emperor." 

"Valid, it's just the literary Narnia has kings. I will make something up. I am the... duke...? Is duke still pushing it?... of, uh..."

"Duke would be acceptable, and so would Narnia."

"I don't want to be a duke of Narnia, I'd slip up for the same reason, because literary Narnia does kings and queens and there's not really dukes around, in the books. I guess I can pick a Narnian region. Duke of Beruna in Narnia under King Peter Pevensie."

"Peter Pevensie would sound like an implausibly familiar name for an unfamiliar country, I expect."

"Uh. Under... Aslan."

"That would work."

"Is my name okay, Haru Swan? Haru is short for Masaharu."

"Yes, I expect that will work fine."

"Will it be too weird if we speak English in Narnia?"

"People will probably accept that some of the nobility have learned it more easily than it being universal."

"...should the commoners speak French or Tagalog in Narnia, those are my options. I was thinking of doing Korean next but I haven't even started."

"Say some things in Tagalog?"

"Hindi ko pa kasing mahusay ang Tagalog."

"Yes that will pass as distinct enough should questions about the first language of Narnia arise."

"Okay."

"If that's all that relevant at the moment I can have a servant show you to the guest house." It's still early enough that she can try to get some sleep - her haunting will have to be delayed a day.