Wizard's Wish - (Kinda) Yandere SGE x reader

Chapter 14: Doom Room

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Y/n had no idea why lunch was a joint-school activity. because Evers sat with Evers, Nevers sat with Nevers, and both groups pretended the other wasn't there. Lunch took place in the Clearing, an intimate picnic field outside the Blue Forest gates. To get to the Clearing, students had to journey through twisty tunnels of trees that grew narrower and narrower, until one by one the children spat through a hallowed trunk onto emerald grass.

As soon as Agatha and Y/n came through the Good tunnel, they followed the line of Evers receiving picnic baskets from nymphs in red hoods, while Nevers from Evil tunnel took rusty pails from red-suited wolves. Y/n and Agatha sat down in a shady patch of grass, protected from the sun, because it was surprisingly warm for being november.

"Hey, this looks pretty good." Y/n said she looked in her basket. Smoked trout sandwiches, rampion salad, strawberry soufflé, and a vial of sparkling lemon water.
"Well, we're still at a dead end." Agatha said with an annoyed sigh. But she let that fall away as she opened her watering mouth to the sandwich–
Sophie swiped it.

"You don't know what I've been through," she sobbed, scarfing it whole. "Here's yours." She plunked down a pail of gruel. Agatha and Y/n stared at her.
"Look, I asked," Sophie garbled between bites. Apparently Nevers needs to learn deprivation. Part of your training. This is lovely by the way." Both were still staring.
"What?" Sophie said. "Do I still have blood on my teeth? Because I thought I got it all–" Over Y/n's shoulder, she saw Tedros and his friends pointing and snickering.
"Oh, let me get that for you," Y/n said and picked the wart off Sophie's face once she realized it was, in fact, fake. Sophie shrieked out in horror and cried, as Tedros and boys exploded into whoops.

"Ohh, it can't get any worse," Sophie moaned. Hort picked up her discarded wart and ran away with it. Sophie looked at Agatha, who cracked a smile, and Y/n who had to hold her laughter. "It's not funny!" Sophie wailed. But they were all laughing, even Sophie.
"What do you think he will do with it?" Y/n said through laughter.
Sophie stopped laughing. "We need to go home. Now."

Agatha and Y/n told Sophie all about their frustrations solving the riddle, including their dead end with Professor Sader. Before they could even try to ask about their paintings, Sader had taken off to meet his Evil students, leaving three geriatric pigs to lecture about the importance of fortifying one's house.
"He's the only one who can help us," said Agatha.
"Better hurry. My days are numbered," Sophie said glumly and recounted everything that had happened with her roommates, including their predictions of Sophie's doom.

"You die? That doesn't make sense. You can't be the villain if we're friends." Agatha said.
"That's why the School Master said you can't," Y/n replied, giving one of her sandwiches to Agatha. "Something will come between you. Something that answers the riddle."
"What would that even be?" Sophie asked, eating the soufflé.
"Maybe it's all connected. This thing that Good has and Evil doesn't. Do you think it's why Good always wins?" Agatha suggested.
"Evil used to win, according to Lady Lesso. But now Good has something that beats them all." Sophie said.
"But the School Master forbade us to return to his tower. So the answer to the riddle isn't a word or a thing or an idea— we have to do something!" Y/n said.
"Now we're getting somewhere. First it's something that can turn us against each other. Second, it's something that beats Evil every time. And third, it's something we can physically do—"

The girls spun to each other.
"I got it," Said Agatha
"Me too," said Sophie
"Same," said Y/n—
"It's so obvious."
"So obvious."
"Never been more clear."
"It's— It's—"
"Yes, it's"
"It's just that thing—"
"No idea," Agatha said.
"Me either," sighed Sophie.
"No clue," Y/n said disappointingly.