Yeah, you need to complete all of the tasks to avoid the tragedy - either by doing them yourself or automatically through awakening, with enough nasty value. Otherwise you will fail.
Which one? Criminals have different QTEs to catch them. If I recall correctly they are:
- Press correct button (racoon).
- Mash the interaction button (Angel's Minion).
- Press button once the bar if filled (Colonel).
- Press specific strings of buttons (Ogre).
- Do the first three mini-games (Ogre when fought with help).
You can't avoid it completely, you can only cut it short by resisting.
It's readable enough since I've played enough machine translated poetry to not be bothered by it. When mixed with my familiarity with "properly" translated part 1 as well as my own understanding of Japanese it's pretty alright even. That's not a reasonable solution though, that would be waiting for a human or at least cleaned up AI translation.