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Although I was helped by someone, some particular lines left me and a friend
confused and we haven't reached a conclusion.

The verb 許す has been used a lot, mostly in the negative 許せない because the plot
is about two guys and it's about revenge, thus "I will never forgive what you
did" is said a lot (another common usage for 許す is "to allow", but I believe
that "to forgive" is used in this context).

Now, one of these guys says 許す in 3 ways, and I wish to know if the following
sentences can be understood in two ways or just one. I'm sorry if I can't
provide more context, but even just what you can understand at first glance
could be of help. Here are the lines to which I provided my translation
attempts:

> [それ]{・・}は…  
>  俺のだ
>
> 俺が地獄まで持っていくものなんだ
>
> それは

That is the thing which I will take with me to hell.

> 許せなかったおれを  
>  許せないでいるおれを  
>  永遠に許せないそれを  
>  殺しておれは  
>  やっと永遠に許されない

As you can see, a lot of 許す. I tried to break down every sentence、also forgive
me for writing them in that weird way above. I wanted to better illustrate
just how the lines are written in the manga speech bubbles, thus a total of 5
speech bubbles when the characters talks with 許す.

OK, so now I tried to break down every line and translate quite literally:

> 許せなかったおれを

許せない the past potential form in the negative, meaning "Can't forgive." Simple
here, and here it seems to act like a noun modifier right? Thus I can say "I,
who couldn't be forgiven". BUT, at the same time and I'm not sure of this, but
can I interpret it as :" I, who could not forgive" (a certain act)?. Maybe
something else is needed for the latter meaning and this is where I would need
help with...

> 許せないでいるおれを

Isn't this a state of being? as in "I'm currently (still am) in the state of
not being able to be forgiven." (I'm so sorry if this sounds so confusing!)

> 永遠に許せないそれを  
>  殺しておれは  
>  やっと永遠に許されない

永遠に許せないそれを/ To me it sounds like the sentence is a modifier for それ, thus "The
thing which I can never forgive"

殺しておれは  
やっと永遠に許されない "By killing it..."

And this is where I don't know anymore because I don't know how to interpret
the causative 許される. I get the feeling that here it would work with the meaning
of "to allow".

I'm truly sorry for such a long and most likely poorly explained post, I
really did try to explain as much as I could. Anything would be of help!

Here is the original for context:

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manga](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zgyjt.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zgyjt.png)
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Help with a few sentences using 許す
> 許せなかった俺

The first one can either mean " _Me, who you couldn't forgive_ ," or " _me who
couldn't forgive...,_ ". Without any other sentence we wouldn't be able to
tell which one it is because here the past tense of the verb makes it act also
like an adjective (it qualifies the 俺).

> 許せないでいる俺

The second one can't mean " _... of being able **to be forgiven_** " because
it is not a passive sentence here but an active sentence. But you're right on
the rest of the sentence, it basically means " _me who can't forgive...,_ "
(me who is in the state of not being able to forgive...,).

Thanks to this one with いる that tells us that the performer of the action is
actually 俺. It lets us know that the first sentence means " _me who couldn't
forgive...,_ " and not the other one.

> 永遠に許せないそれを殺して : I will kill that, the thing which I will never be able to
> forgive

And this sentence again confirms the fact that the performer of the action of
許す is 俺.

As for the last 許す:

> 永遠に許せないそれを殺して俺はやっと永遠に許されない

I understand it as: " _I will finally not be forgiven for the eternity after I
kill this thing which I can never forgive_ ".

If there is no further context, I doubt that the 許す in 永遠に許せない would mean "to
allow" because that wouldn't make much sense to me not to specify **what** you
can't allow. Same for the last 許す in 永遠に許されない

I feel like maybe the 俺 is feeling guilty about something he did and doesn't
want others to be forgiving him, so that's why he's thinking about killing
"it".

To sum it up:

Me, who couldn't forgive それ,... Me, who can't forgive それ,... I will finally
not be forgiven forever by killing this thing which I can never forgive.

Sounds wordy but knowing so little about the context that's pretty much all we
can think of... You can try replacing "forgive" by "allow" to see if it makes
more sense to you.

There's also another possibility: maybe the それ is replacing 俺 and the person
who wrote this wants us to think that それ is something that is within 俺:

許せなかった俺を、 許せないでいる俺を、 永遠に許せないそれ(俺)を殺して...

But maybe I am taking it a little too far
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