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Translation

• Context: an elder character, Kaseki カセキ, imparts wisdom upon someone younger, Ginrou 銀狼.
• anshin sei, Ginrou
  安心せい　銀狼
  "Be relaxed," Ginrou.
  Don't worry, Ginrou.
  • Same as anshin seyo 安心せよ, anshin shiro 安心しろ - a suru-verb in meireikei 命令形.
• nushi wa chiiiiiitomo yowaku nanka nai wai
  主はちーーーとも弱くなんかないわい
  You are not a biiiiiiiit weak.
  • nushi - "you," second person pronoun, otherwise means "lord," "master."
  • Ginrou wa yowakunai
    銀狼は弱くない
    Ginrou isn't weak.
  • chittomo ちっとも - "(not) a bit."
  • nanka - "or anything like." In this case: not weak or anything such.
  • wai わい - this is the sentence ending particle wa わ together with i い. Note that i い can be replaced by yo in this position as well, but then it sounds feminine:
  • yowaku nanka nai wa yo
    弱くなんかないわよ
    (same meaning, feminine.)
  • Although sentence-final wa わ is used by men in some cases, wa yo doesn't seem to be, even though wai is.
• mushiro kowagari wa naga-iki no hiketsu ja!
  むしろ怖がりは長生きの秘訣じゃ！
  In fact, being afraid is the secret of long-living!
  In fact, being afraid is the secret to live a long life!
  
  • kowagari - the state of "being afraid" or someone habitually in such state, i.e. a coward. Noun form of kowagaru 怖がる, "to be afraid." See stative verb for why it's "to be."
  • naga-iki - noun form of nagaku ikiru 長く生きる, "to live long."
  • ja - same as the da だ copula, used by the elderly.
• {jijii ga iu} to settoku-ryoku binbin jaro?
  ジジィが言うと説得力ビンビンじゃろ？
  If {an old man says [it]}, [it] [has a lot of] persuasiveness, [doesn't it]?
  • settoku-ryoku - the "power," chikara 力, "to convince [someone]," settoku suru 説得する.
  • binbin - mimetic word for throbbing (e.g. headache), blaring (music), and similarly for sound or words that have a lot of impact.
  • jaro - same as daro だろ.
• washi mo kowagari jatta!
  ワシも怖がりじゃった！
  I was a coward too!
  • jatta - same as datta だった.