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In this sentence, I am unsure what てもらった is referencing, as the parts that follow make me unsure of what it is trying to convey. If it helps, I have added the past and following sentence to make more sense of the context.

「もしあなたにもっとマシな案があるなら聞かせて。あたしが考えるの、飽きてきたところなの」

かなり喋ってもらったが、どうでもいいことばかりじゃないか。俺はまず当然の疑問を口にすることにした。

「あのさ…それって本物の銃？」

From what I have gathered, I feel as though the てもらった sentence is something along the lines of 'I was made to speak a fair amount, but it doesn't bother me. Firstly I must make my reasonable concerns known'

I am uncertain as some of the words in the sentence such as かなりmust have some ambiguity to them, so I might be missing out on something.

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    One hint might be that the subject of 喋る is the あたし, not 俺.
    – sundowner
    May 18, 2022 at 22:35
  • So going by that, its something along the lines of "I have been making her speak alot"
    – absintheblanqui
    May 19, 2022 at 19:59
  • Right. And you'd need to add nuance of もらう.
    – sundowner
    May 19, 2022 at 21:33
  • "she's been speaking at me alot, but it doesn't bother me"
    – absintheblanqui
    May 24, 2022 at 20:15

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This かなり喋ってもらった is just "She talked quite a lot (for the sake of me)" (or super-literally, "I received a favor of talking quite a lot"). This is a fairly simple example of (-て)もらう, so you may need to review its basic usage. By もらう, he is (at least superficially) thanking for her long talk. かなり is an adverb that means "fairly", "quite a lot", etc.

かなり喋ってもらったが、どうでもいいことばかりじゃないか。

She talked quite a lot (for me), but they're all unimportant things, aren't they?

Or you may translate this sarcastically like "Thank you for the long speech about all the things that don't matter".

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