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Translation

• Context: Shinku 真紅 explains how proxy battle-based anime plots work to a main character who just got himself into a proxy battle-based anime plot via magic contract.
• ii koto?
  いいこと？
  (interjection.)
  • Just pretend it means "let me tell you something good," or "do you want to hear something good?" or "do you know what's good?" Or something like that, except it's not used before telling someone something good, it's just used to call their attention.
• {tatakau} tame niwa
  chikara ga iru no yo
  戦うためには力が要るのよ
  In order {to fight}, power is necessary.
  (double subject construction.)
  
  • To fight, I need power. (no. wai.)
• demo
  dooru tantai dewa
  utsuwa ni suginai
  でもドール単体では器にすぎない
  But a doll alone doesn't exceed a vessel.
  • However, a doll is but a vessel.
  • I'm nothing more than a vessel.
• (insert some half-baked anime logic required to shoehorn a middle school kid protagonist into a violent poltergeistic killer doll battle royale here.)