Overview
- Episode 5, titled “A Mealtime Chat,” adapts three manga chapters and credits writer Yuka Yamada with English adaptation by Madeleine Morris.
- Riddle intensifies enforcement of Heartslabyul rules, with on-screen cues suggesting his mounting frustration and growing magical risk.
- Ace attempts to make amends through a tart, prompting a chestnut-gathering and kitchen sequence that highlights Trey’s baking and his “Paint the Roses” spell.
- A greenhouse encounter introduces Savanaclaw housewarden Leona Kingscholar as a physical threat, with Ruggie Bucchi stepping in to cool tensions.
- Deuce shares motivations behind his push to be an honor student, as the episode sets up the next chapter, scheduled for December 3 on Disney+ and Hulu.