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Adding another item to my inventory brought the menu back. Thanks for the reply.

My game was doing the same thing. I managed to get past that point when I made sure to get the "Find a cricket for Huan" task before I fixed the mill wheel, because the mill wheel triggers the cricket, which you don't know you need until you talk to Huan.

And now I'm stuck on the same bug after completing "Find a cricket for Huan".

Chapter 2, Section 1. 

After the conversation with Brandy, when Seri is back in her apartment, the game stops responding. Reloading the game did not help.