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Following scene: Evil henchman grabs girl threatening her and asks her if she
won't become his woman to which the girl reluctantly declines and says that
she already has somebody in her life. The bad guy starts laughing and lets her
go, shooing her away. Cue good guy:

> 読めねぇな・・・あんただけは

_You're the only one I can never predict._

Bad guy responds:

> 俺は 正直モンが好きなだけや  
> 人の顔色うかがったり **せんと**  
>  俺がそうやからなぁ

_I just like honest people who don't care about the other party's feelings.
I'm like that, y'know._

In italics my translation. My question pertains to the bolded「せんと」. My initial
thought was that this meant「～しないと（だめだ）」but that wouldn't make any sense in
this context ( _I like honest people. They gotta consider the other party
too._ ) I've googled this construction and found out that it can also
mean「～しないで」or「～せず」. Given that, would I be correct to assume that the latter
meaning here is intended and that the guys line is simply abbreviated - if I
were to take a guess, the whole thing could go like
this:「人の顔色うかがったりせんと［しないで］言いたいこと言うだけやから（正直な人が好き）」?

Thank you in advance!

EDIT：[The scene in question](https://youtu.be/gVOlbhDjsDQ), the relevant part
starts at 21:55, the lines mentioned above occur at 23:15.
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kansai-ben
関西弁 「～せんと」- More than just「～しないと」?
I watched the video clip but I'm still unsure about this. It's hard for me to
interpret this as a pure Kansai-ben sentence. But I agree that this cannot be
a conditional-と.

This may be "explanatory-と" used instead of の mainly in Kyushu dialects. For
example, そうじゃなかと is そうじゃないんだ, and 彼は言わんと is 彼は言わないんだ in Kyushu-ben. Then the
whole sentence would mean (正直モンは)人の顔色を伺ったりしないんだ, which would fit the context.

Looks like Majima is known as a person who speaks an unnatural Kansai-ben with
wrong intonation (cf
[真島弁](https://dengekionline.com/elem/000/000/145/145904/)). This is a hunch,
but maybe the writer intentionally mixed a little Kyushu-ben to make his
speech more unnatural?
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