God that translation note just completely ruins the drama of the scene. For any aspiring scanlators out there, don't do that. If you want to voice you're opinions do it on the credits page.
Don't let all this distract you from the fact that Marcille got turned into a loli, cast an explosion spell, and then collapsed from running out of MP.
Chapter 17 page 22:
Marcille: ...She praised you, too. She said she really respected you.
Laius: Is that so...
Flashback Marcillle: What's so amazing about him?
Flashback Farlyn: He does a fantastic impression of a dog!
Don't know what Nodoka is talking about here. Cerberus has always been heavily associated with snakes, most likely because it's parents, Echidna and Typhon were at least part snake, as well as two of it's siblings, the Hydra and the Chimera. Originally, Cerberus was depicted as having 50 or 100...
I think the main difference was preparedness. Vivio clearly developed countermeasures to each of Nanoha's specific moves, spent most of her childhood practicing against her moma's homing bullets and has experience getting hit by what was probably Nanoha's biggest starlight breaker ever. Nanoha...