also witnessed it in vanilla.
the retreat lines also happens in Chugoku when there never npcs beside the blood dragon around.
“they overpower me in a minute/ had enough of this” like this
edit:
indeed without [c]area_trade_trader[/c] they wont play retreat lines only normal idle lines

here is what i know. dunno if related

….Unfortunately, there’s a bug preventing completion of Mission 9. Add “Act_LockDock = Player, Ku07_to_Ku06_hole, unlock” after “Cnd_CommComplete = DX_M09_0620_HAKKERA” (line 1841) to DATA\MISSIONS\M09\m09.ini to fix it (then load the latest save).

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