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成语
冷酷无情, cold-hearted and unfeeling (lit. cold, cruel, without feeling)
网开一面, lenient, to give an opponent a way out (lit. to open one side of the net, going back to the Xia Dynasty)*
秋后算账, to settle the score at a suitable time (lit. to settle accounts after autumn; accounts seem to vary on whether prisoners were executed in autumn or farmers did their books after harvest)
pinyin )
*It looks like if anyone wants to study Chinese idioms in Japanese through Nirvana in Fire, you can do that here!

词汇
只, only; 只能, can only; 只要, as long as (pinyin in tags)
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-2-word-list/

Guardian:
看来黑袍使大人并不像他看上去那么冷酷无情, it seems the Lord Envoy isn't as cold-hearted as he appears
怎么就对咱们老大网开一面, no way is he going to show leniency to our boss
该不会是秋后算账吧, isn't he just waiting for the right time to settle accounts?
只要你多看多听多学,你自然就懂的多了, as long as you see, hear, and learn a lot, you will naturally come to understand more

Me:
别说不能吃巧克力,这么冷酷无情啊。
这样的规则的话,我们只能看样子。
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语法
既然 + fact +(那 +)question, "given X, why would you do Y?" (bottom of page)
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Expressing_%22since%22_with_%22jiran%22

词汇
秋天, autumn (pinyin in tags) Seasonally appropriate, at least for us northern hemisphere people!
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-2-word-list/

Guardian:
你既然都知道,为什么非要一意孤行? so if you know all this, why do you insist on having your own way?
既然你一定要杀一个人,那杀一个年轻的岂不是更好吗, given that you have to kill someone, isn't it better to kill someone young?
地星正直多事之秋, honestly Dixing is troubled just now [多事之秋 doesn't literally have anything to do with autumn, but it's as close as the script gets, and also I like it]

Me:
你既然不爱吃辣,为什么敢点火锅?
秋天比夏天一百倍好。

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