Confusion over それで+なら meaning In this video, the characters are saying the lines they had in the game, only reworded, but they basically mean the same thing. > In the video game, there is a line of text: > > "If it will make me myself again, I'll do whatever it takes." Which I'll assume says just about the same thing as the video, just reworded. Both lines are spoken by the same character. But I've always been confused about the since all it says in the dictionaries for is > 1. and; thereupon; because of that >

literally means "with this", and it does have various usages. Bit in this context, simply means "with/using this approach" or "in this way". It means the same thing as or .

meaning "and" or "by the way" is a fixed set phrase, and that's why it's described in dictionaries. in your question is a simple combination of and as the method/means marker.