We join the group in the city some minutes later. "If Rindra said we needed to get supplies to find the unicorn in Moondancer Forest, how are we supposed to buy them?" Glacier wonders
"Ooh, good point." Aiden agrees as he fishes a few yen from his pockets. "I doubt any of the beings here would know what coins on the Green Plains look like."
"And those that do are only out to rip us off." Ember sighs.
Just then, a black cat gets Ember's attention. "Hey, wanna buy a time piece?" he sneers as he shows Ember a bewildering array of objects that look like watches.
"I'm not interested..." Ember stammers as she dashes away into the marketplace.
Hinote is impressed. "That was a smart move, hino."
"I know how to deal with those guys back home." Ember explains.
"That brings me back to how we are going to buy anything if we don't have any of the local currency." Aiden wonders.
"Here-eiko." Eika gives everyone a small bag. When they open them, they smile when they see a number of different gems inside.
"Cool, you use gems as money!" Hikari is impressed as we peek into her bag.
"I gave you each 5,000 gems--that should be plenty for everyone-eiko." Eika smiles.
"Thank you, Eika!" Glacier replies.
"Come on, let's go shopping!" Hikari is eager to spend her share of gems.
"Don't spend it all on souvenirs!" Ember cries as she dashes to keep up with Hikari.
We follow the group as they buy food, cloaks, maps, and other items. When we catch up to them some hours later, they are in a room in an inn, poring over a map of the Crystal Plains. "So from the city, we need to go east..." Glacier notes.
"And along the way, we pass through plains and swamps on the way to the forest." Aiden adds.
Ember, meanwhile, is thinking about where the red Rainbow Note was hiding. "Does the Rainbow Note's hiding place seem odd to you?
"What I don't get is why the red Rainbow Note would hide in a word like "sound". Glacier wonders.
"Remember how we were told that each note is connected to each other?" Aiden asks.
"So?" Ember is not impressed.
"Besides the red note pointing us to the orange one by showing us its location, the word it was hiding in is also a clue to the next one." Aiden explains.
"So the tale the orange note is hiding in has something to do with sound?" Hikari asks.
"Yeah--not just sound itself, but music also works as well--that means any story with magic instruments is fair game." Aiden replies.
Glacier yawns. "I'm getting tired...."
"Me too." Hikari agrees.
"Then let's call it a night." Aiden suggests as he gets up from his chair. But before the group can get ready for bed, everyone is startled by pops in the distance.
"Rumore!" Ember gasps.
"No, silly, it's only fireworks-kori." Kouri assures Ember as red, blue, and green stars light up the night.
"Fireworks!" Hikari is up in a heartbeat.
Unbeknownst to PreCure, Rumore is watching from behind a bush, but she slinks away as the fireworks display continues.