But also... Lmk if you're accepting drawing requests (⁠つ⁠✧⁠ω⁠✧⁠)⁠つ

Wow, I tried to be mysterious about it! You must be a psychic like Sayaka 😊

Ah, that little poem before the trial that always makes my heart pump up!

A deadly judgment… A deadly deception… A deadly betrayal… A deadly riddle, a deadly defense, a deadly faith… A deadly…Class Trial!

I feel this translation is accurate to the Japanese text, which I'll provide here. I tried searching up if there's any hidden reference or more, but I failed...

命がけの裁判… A deadly trial... 命がけの騙し合い… A deadly deception... 命がけの裏切り… A deadly betrayal... 命がけの謎解き…命がけの言い訳…命がけの信頼… A deadly mystery...a deadly excuse...a deadly trust... 命がけの…学級裁判…… A deadly...class trial...

As for Makoto's 'inner poet', I do also think it's translated well into English for the most part. I looked up some of his 'poetic' lines from the top of my head:

English

I felt like a tame little house cat who'd wandered into a pride of lions.

Japanese

例えるなら、ライオンの群れに紛れ込んでしまった三毛猫の気分… Simply put, it's like a calico cat blending in with a pride of lions...

English

It was the kind of despair that felt like a blind puppy in hell had more of a future than us...

Japanese

それは、奈落に落ちた子犬の方が、まだ未来があると思える程の絶望… It was a despair so deep that even a puppy who had fallen into hell had more of a future...

English

It's as if she wrote it with life itself.

Japanese

あれは…命そのもので書かれてるんだ… These were... written with her very life...

Still on a search for more. If I find anything new, I shall post as another 'Makoto Naegi' fact!

If you're inspecting the cherry blossoms in the Dojo during Chapter 6, one of his lines goes:

Cherry blossoms make me think of flower viewing, but to be honest, I prefer girls over flowers...

In the Japanese transcript, there's a small difference:

お花見って言えば桜…でもボクは花より団子だな… When you say "hanami", you think of cherry blossoms... but honestly, I prefer dango over flowers.

He's referencing a Japanese idiom - 花より団子, or dango/dumplings over flowers. It means "practicality over aesthetic" and is often used in context of people coming to hanami mainly for the food and drinks instead of viewing the beautiful blossoms.

Hello and welcome, anon! I'm very happy to have you here 🫂

About ao3, I deleted my account after being troubled over that story for a long time. I wrote it when I was young with half-baked ideas and nearly no plan. As I've grown, I attempted a few times to revamp it but I've fallen out of love for it. It was painful to even look at it, with all my old ideas and old art, that I made the rash decision to delete it all.

I'm touched to hear my story entertained you that time. I'm happy to get such a lovely message.

Do you remember this line? He says this when you examine the sauna during Chapter 6 at some point.

Y-Ya know, if you pronounced "Thursday" like "Thaursday"…that'd be kinda funny…

It seems kinda nonsensical, doesn't it? Yet strangely funny.

However, in the Japanese transcript, his line goes like this.

も、木曜日を… もきゅ曜日って言うと… かわいらしいな… If you call Thursday... "Mokyu-day"... it sounds kinda cute.

He's just playing on the word for Thursday, 木曜日 (mokuyôbi), by using mokyu, a Japanese onomatopoeia for cute things.