Repentance may be expected from someone asking for a demon to be cast out

Repentance may be expected from someone having a need for a demon to be cast out in order for the demon to be able to be cast out. 

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Inference from a cause for which the demon was able to enter:

A cause for a demon to be able to enter someone may be to have remained in the past evil knowingly and willingly. 

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What may cause a demon to be able to enter someone?
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Because this may be a cause for a demon to be able to enter someone, the opposite of that cause could be a way for the demon to be able to come out. One would thus need to repent from what they did in the past that would have caused this demon to enter them. 

In some cases, some people may not later knowingly and willingly do that evil which they committed in the past, but they may still do it in the present ignorantly or under compulsion (not willingly) because their flesh is weak. The reason why it would be possible that in the past evil could have been done knowingly but that later the person may not remember that and then do it ignorantly can be because darkness is said to blind people according to the Bible, as it is written about someone that did evil in the past but presently "KNOWS NOT where he-is-going because the darkness BLINDED his eyes" (1 John 2:11). 

Inference from mercy:

In the Bible, casting out demons can be considered having MERCY on someone. For more information:

Casting out demons - can be considered having mercy on someone:
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If having mercy on someone can be needed for a demon to be cast out, then it may follow that mercy was needed for a reason. 

In the Bible, mercy can be needed for example when someone has sinned. It is written: "having-gone, learn what it-means: ‘I-desire MERCY, and not (a) sacrifice’. FOR I-did not come to-call righteous (ones), but SINNERS" (Matthew 9:13). In a similar passage in Luke, Jesus mentioned that this was a call for sinners to repentance specifically, as He said: "I-have not come to-call righteous (ones), but SINNERS TO REPENTANCE" (Luke 5:32). 

In order to be shown mercy, sinners are called to repentance.

A similar idea may be found in the following verse: "LET THE UNGODLY (PERSON) FORSAKE HIS WAYS, and a lawless man his counsels; and let him return to the LORD, and he WILL BE SHOWN MERCY" (Isaiah 55:7).

Inference from John the Baptist preparing the way for Jesus to cast out demons by proclaiming to people to first repent:

John the Baptist came to prepare the way for Jesus, as it is written about "John the Baptist" (Matthew 3:1) that he was proclaiming to "REPENT" (Matthew 3:2), adding that he was here to "Prepare the way (of the) Lord" (Matthew 3:3), telling people to "produce fruit worthy (of) repentance" (Matthew 3:8).

In the next chapter, as the Lord Jesus started His ministry and "they-brought to Him all the (ones) being ill, being-gripped (with) various diseases and torments, and BEING-DEMONIZED, and having-seizures, and paralytics. And HE-CURED THEM" (Matthew 4:24).

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