Game:

.hack//Mutation (2002)

Duration: 2:14

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Since BlackRose is required for this dungeon, I had to replay it like 9 times to show all the characters. None of the lines are particularly amusing, but I took the time to do this so it's being uploaded, dammit.

Mia and Wiseman can't be brought for this dungeon and Elk, like the last scene with interchangeable party members, can be brought but doesn't have any lines.

Also I got curious how BlackRose thought the NPC was coming on to them from that bizarre exchange, so I looked up a Japanese player's playthrough of the game to find this scene in Japanese. BlackRose says "アンタ、ちょっとおちょくるってるでしょ…" which would be more like "You're messing with us, aren't you...?" The NPC responds with "おちょ来る？ おちょ来るな？ 来るか来るない、待ち合わせる。" and that's translated pretty much spot on in game. But what makes this exchange not work in English is that the NPC says "おちょ来る" which is pronounced the same way BlackRose says "おちょくる", but the NPC uses the kanji for "to come" which is how it ends up talking about rendezvousing and mentions Net Slum, and obviously that doesn't work with the English language what with us not using kanji.

So I can see the translator had the problem of, if translating BlackRose's line accurately, then there's nothing to lead the NPC into mentioning the word "come" which would make the scene fall apart. So that's why BlackRose has that odd reaction in English, they NEEDED "come" for this scene.

...Yeah, I realized how that sounded as soon as I typed it.