A rumor circulates through Gakuen Alice: the school may be shut down. To keep it from happening, students need to raise funds — deposited into a communal savings pot. The method involves collecting items from the forests, synthesizing them using Hotaru's firefly abilities, and submitting the results to an in-game auction. The craftable items include things that appear in the original manga: ketchup bullets, Pigler No. 3, pengie badges. Events from the earlier GBA game also return, including the Kurigo rice competition.