"... a very poor place in all of the three northern states ...
A useless territory stuck between the steep mountains and the violent sea."
I don't think Marco looks like a typical Norwegian but what do I know ¯\.(ツ)./¯
hmm... i think the wrong kanji for 'kaidan' was used in the translation note. It should be 怪談, not 理科 (which is 'rika' and means 'science')
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaidan
"... the protagonist reincarnates into an otome game and struggles to ship the heroine with her favourite character. But in the end the protagonists favourite character ends up with her."
"Hmm. So it's just a story about being a nuisance."
LOL