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Villain to Goku in Dragon Ball (Chapter 2), translated as: "If you leave the
turtle, I'll spare your lives".

> かめをおいていけば = If you leave behind the turtle
>
> 命を助けてやる = I'll save your lives for you
>
> といってる = He is saying
>
> ん = nominalizer
>
> だが = however

I can't understand why the reported speech and why there's a だが at the end.

May be he is saying: "Although they say that" in a figurative way?
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translation meaning particle-と particle-が manga
〜といっている from Dragon Ball
With a bit more context, he is saying

> ははー  
>  ボウズ！！  
>  その海【うみ】ガメ  
>  オレさまに  
>  よこさんか？
>
> [...]
>
> カメを  
>  おいていけば  
>  命【いのち】を助けて【たすけて】やる **と**  
>  **いってるんだが** ・・・
>
> まさか  
>  さからおうっ  
>  てんじゃ  
>  ないだろ？

So here といってる is used to cite his previous sentence (where he already asked
them to hand over the turtle) and が is used with its usual meaning of "but"
(and could for example be substituted by けど here).

So a semi-literal translation might be something like

> Hey, I'm saying I'll let you live if you hand over the turtle, but... you're
> not actually going to go against what I said, are you?
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