Contains Chapters 05 - 08: This volume starts with Shirayuki starting her position as a court herbalist apprentice and meeting the master herbalist she is going to train with, a 12 year old herbalist prodigy named Ryu. Shirayuki and Zen also end up staying at one of the kingdom's forts were everyone had gotten sick and so Shirayuki is needed to help cure them all. Then after everyone returns Zen's brother returns to the palace so we get to meet him as well and see a bit of the relationship between the two brothers.
This volume also contains a bonus story called "Connect Us" about a teenage boy who had died in a car accident coming back to check on his two best friends and see how they were doing. It was a good story and very well written.
There is also a cute little two bonus pages at the end about Ryu's sleeping habits and them rubbing off onto Shirayuki.