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Translation

• Context: Tenma Gabriel White 天真=ガヴリール=ホワイト has realized what she really is.
• {sukui you no nai} dame tenshi datte koto ni ne!!
  救いようのない駄目天使だってことにね！！
  A {[hopeless]} failure of an angel is [what I am]!
  • sukuu
    救う
    To save.
  • sukui you no nai
    救いようのない
    No apparent way of saving.
    Without a way to save [someone].
    Futile to try to save. Hopeless. Gone for good.
• ryaku shite datenshi'!
  略して駄天使っ！
  Abbreviate it: failen angel!
  (this is Crunchyroll's translation, which I must admit: was great.)
  
  • datenshi
    堕天使
    Fallen angel.
  • daten suru
    堕天する
    To fall from heaven. (i.e. to lose one's holiness.)
  • ochiru
    堕る
    To fall. To drop. (in the sense of: to degenerate.)
  • The pun replaces the da of datenshi 堕天使 with da of dame 駄目, implying the angel isn't fallen become it's become evil, it's fail-en as it's become an useless failure who plays MMORPGs all day and has no future.
• ii-kitta!!
  言い切った！！
  [She] declared it!!
  • She didn't say it. She DECLARED it.
  • iu
    言う
    To say.
  • ~kiru
    ～切る
    To do completely. (auxiliary verb.)
  • She said it completely. She asserted, declared it.