Understanding this sentence: と笑ってたがな I was playing Fire Emblem 5 and at the beginning of Chapter 2 there is a dialogue between two evil characters: one seems to be a priest called August and the other is a henchman called Bucks. The henchman is telling the priest that their boss obtained some information from a villager through torture. The dialogue keeps going like this: > > > > > > > > > > I don't quite understand the last part of the dialogue. I've found an unofficial translation that goes like this: > _August: “Torture…”_ > > _Bucks: “Right. Our boss said you’re the one who taught him how to torture people. No wonder you were cast out of the order.”_ It seems to me that the "" part is missing. I'm not sure if "" here means something on the line of "I wish", so that the sentence would go "I would have liked to laugh about that"; but that makes no sense to me.

The is the quotative + the action of having laughed.

So, this henchman named Bucks is saying his boss laughed while saying " "

The is equivalent to . You can see this answer for more details.