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Translation

• Context: Fuurinji Hayato 風林寺隼人, an elder martial arts master, talks about how someone visited him earlier.
• iya, jitsu wa nou...
  いや、じつはのぅ･･･
  Erm, the truth [is that]...
  [To tell the truth]...
  • iya - interjection.
  • nou のう - sentence ending particle typically used by old men.
• hiru ni taisou shinkoku sou ni, washi no tokoro ni kite no~~
  昼にたいそう深刻そうにわしの所に来ての～～
  At day, looking very serious, [he] came to me, and [then]...
  • washi no tokoro
    わしの所
    My place. Where I am. Where I was at the time.
  • no~~ - same as nou, except in this case used as an interjection between phrases.
  • nou has a long vowel expressed by う or ぅ.
  • ～ is a stylized ー (prolonged sound mark), which also represents a long vowel.