Chapter 5: The Mystery of the Tape-Recorder

This chapter episode happens before either Chapter 3: Young Woman Seeks Apartment (if you decided to stay at the farm), or Chapter 4: Young Woman Seeks Apartment (if you decided to leave). For this chapter to happen, you must choose Hilda's flat in either one of the two episodes mentioned, or it will not appear at all. The next episode is Chapter 6: Business is going Badly.

### Walkthrough

#### Finding the tape recorder

During a cutscene, Emma wakes up and notices something on the floor. She picks it up and plays the recording, which is Hugo saying the following:

After this message, Emma hears her own voice in the recorder as she enters her home and says goodbye to Oliver. Just then, Hugo appears from under the bed and takes the tape recorder, running off with it. Emma says she must follow him, and the chase starts.

#### Chasing and threatening Hugo

Following Hugo is very easy. There is no timer and each time you enter a new area, you will see him run towards a new one. He will run until he reaches the Church Square (south of the village) and hide behind the stairs of Chloe's flat for rent. There, Emma talks to him and confronts him about hiding under her bed with a tape recorder. She threatens to call the police but feels bad for Hugo because he is acting genuinely scared. He tells her that someone wants his secret and that they are chasing him, so he decided to hide in Emma's house. Emma inquires him about what that secret is, but Hugo tells her that she must visit Luigi at midnight if she wants to know. Emma is not very happy about that, but complies.

#### Visiting Luigi at midnight

Emma must visit Luigi's atelier at midnight. His house is at the left-most of the Market Street, north of the village. If you try to go there too early, Emma will inform the player that the atelier is closed. If the player does not go to the atelier at midnight, they will be reminded by Elsys to do so the next morning.

As soon as Emma enters the atelier and tries to speak to Luigi about Hugo, the elderly man insists on discussing his art. However, Emma stops him in his tracks and insists she wants to know about Hugo's secret. Luigi tells her that the fact that Hugo told her about his secrets must mean he likes her. Emma is not too flattered and asks the man to focus on the topic at hand. Finally, Luigi explains that Hugo had come a while back asking him to hide something in a little statue that would work as a trophy for a riding competition. He explains he gave the trophy to Flora and that Emma must win the next competition if she wants to know what is hidden inside the sculpture. With that, he asks Emma to leave because she is "blurring his inspiration".

#### Winning the competition

Of course, Emma tries to talk to Flora about the trophy, but she tells her that it is already at the Regional Federation Headquarters. Therefore, Emma has to win the next competition if she really wants it. The player can check the bulletin board to see when the next competition will happen, and must try to win it if they want to know what is inside the trophy.

#### Chapter end

If you win the competition, you will find an ad inside. It will give you access to a brand-new horse at the breeding center. Talking to Hugo will reveal that his father had asked him to bring the ad for their stallion to the newspaper, but he did not want anybody to buy it, so he hid it inside the trophy. However, he trusts Emma to take care of it, and that is why he tells her of his secret. Emma tells him that there were simpler ways to tell her all that, but Hugo replies with a simple "oh...". This concludes the episode, and a pop-up will show up informing the player that the next episode – ⁣Chapter 6: Business is Going Badly⁣ – will start in 6 days.

### Quests

* Find Hugo.
* Go to Luigi's at midnight, like Hugo asked.
* Try to win the competition to get the trophy.