>>24988
It's an imperative; the instructor is telling the class to perform the action. So it's a second-person plural imperative: (vous) Marchez! (vous) Rompez! "flèche" is a noun, though, so there's no conjugation to worry about. One thing to note is that the original provides some guide to pronunciation. In chapter 2, Chitose says:
> でそのまま一歩前進する「マルシェ」
> Taking a step forward in that position is an "advance."
> 一歩後退が「ロンペ」
> A step backwards is a "retreat."
"Advance" is translated from マルシェ, and "retreat" from "ロンペ." These are French words, and the Japanese transliteration tells is they're pronounced "marcher/marchez" and "romper/rompez," but not "marche" (which would be マルシュ) or "rompe" (which would be "ロンプ"). This is one of the reasons I feel confident in changing the French; this actually brings it in line with the pronunciation of the original Japanese.
This is all an interesting case of standards and jargon in a multilingual context; many fencing terms used in both English and Japanese are French, but from what I've been able to tell, Japanese tends to borrow more French in fencing terminology than English does, using "marcher" and "romper" where English uses "advance" and "retreat," or borrowing "fendive" where Anglophone fencers use the native "lunge" instead. Because this is a translation into English, I've tried to retain the English terms where appropriate, and use the relevant terms consistently; but the call-and-response classroom dynamic seemed like something I shouldn't mess with too much, and there was already a device for providing a translation from the French built in, as the original had the native captions as well. But then "flèche" reared its head, which is borrowed from the French in both Anglophone and Japanese fencing terminology, so I had to fill in the caption with a non-technical term...
It's sort of a mess, and I just hope that any fencers that read this thing are happy with my decisions.
>>24989
I frankly was confused by this in the Japanese, as well. This translation may be more literal than is warranted simply because I can't understand it any other way. I think the idea is that Youko simply can't see herself going one-to-one against somebody in a fight; but maybe she'd be okay in a team combat event? This isn't clear from the original, either, so I've opted to leave it as ambiguous and kinda strange in the English as it was to me in the original.
I'll look at the changes now.