A New Transfer Student causes Rosemary to fall in love, and she struggles to stay focused the entire day. Then Sage loses focus by thinking about Rosemary.
- Ancestral Weapon: Both Rosemary and Snapdragon use weapons that are ineffective due to wanting to follow their family's legacy. Rosemary's Flowering Thorn is very old and blunt, while Snapdragon has better proficiency with rapiers than axes.
- Birds of a Feather: Thyme and Amaryllis manage to bond over their mothers and cynical views on people.
- Break the Haughty: Once again Amaryllis requires someone's help to finish her task and Thyme makes her to say please.
- Cutting the Knot: With the axe in hand, Amaryllis opts to skip The Maze and leaves Thyme alone, who wants to learn to use a compass. In the end Thyme follows Amaryllis and her tunnels through the bushes.
- Death Course: As part of the training, the students run a course full of grinders and swinging axes.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Sage is bothered by Rosemary being distracted by a hot guy Aster, but in reality she's bothered by Rosemary giving a guy more attention than to her and keeps complaining about it.
- Fatal Flaw: Sage is too busy thinking about who Rosemary interacts with to do her own assignments. As Thyme is proven correct, Rosemary is capable to decide if he's not good for her herself.
- Instantly Proven Wrong: Aster keeps boasting about something he has zero expertise in, which he shows right away. He even uses the wrong side trying to point at his heart.
- I Reject Your Reality: After Rosemary realizes Aster has no idea what he's talking about, he tells her to remain cute because girls normally agree with whatever nonsense he says.
- High-Pressure Emotion: Rosemary's face gets red and starts steaming like a kettle when Aster starts talking to her.
- Leap of Faith: Parnelle jumps into the fog, and it turns out there's a trampoline there. He simply didn't think about death.
- Love at First Sight: Rose gets wide eyes full of Love Bubbles as soon as Aster walks in.
- Love Makes You Dumb:
- Rosemary drools over Aster the entire day, but eventually becomes disillusioned after doing all the work for the two of them.
- Sage in turn keeps thinking about her best friend distancing herself from her and performs even worse in class.
- Mobile Maze: One of the tasks for the class is navigating a hedge maze that morphs and is filled with puzzles.
- Oblivious to Love: Snapdragon is not being subtle by complimenting Sage and taking care of her, but she's too worried about Rosemary to get what Snapdragon is doing. When Thyme finds them she asks if they've kissed already.
- Scary Teeth: Once Amaryllis tries an axe, she starts assaulting the training dummies with her face being drawn with shark teeth.
- Straw Feminist: When Snapdragon tries to comfort Sage, she dismisses them because "guys don't understand the emotional talk", then doubles down on it. Later she apologizes.
- Straw Misogynist: Rosemary eventually realizes that Aster sees her as a luxury object while pushing all the hard work on her, then makes him follow her quietly. When Parsley "accidentally" drops a hammer on his foot, the teacher even approves it.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Aster more than once talks about personal achievements to hide the fact he's physically pathetic. Rosemary fails to notice at first, but becomes more frustrated every time.
- Squishy Wizard: For training, everyone has to use a physical weapon on dummies, even wizards. Sage, Amaryllis, and Snapdragon comically can't even hold their weapons. Subverted when the latter two switch weapons and manage to land good hits.
- Two Lines, No Waiting: For the Death Course, Parsley is teamed with Parnelle, Rosemary with Aster, Sage with Snapdragon and Thyme with Amaryllis. Out of the four, Thyme manages with little difficulty while Parsley has no issues at all, so the plot focuses on the Love Square.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Snapdragon has enough and tells Sage to shut up about Aster allegedly not being a good fit for Rosemary and Sage should be happy for her friend instead, and her talk about "girl bonds" is incredibly insensitive to others.
