[17: Trouble with Numbers]

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YIXING NO longer feels tired, but elated, despite how he had just seriously injured someone

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YIXING NO longer feels tired, but elated, despite how he had just seriously injured someone. It's not that he enjoys pain, it's just that he enjoys the pain of those who have wronged him. Perhaps, Yixing thinks as he skips over to where Minseok pointed, this injury is enough to balance things out between them, and Yixing can forgive Baekhyun when he apologizes. When, because typically, apologies are inevitable (example: Kyungsoo). However, there is the chance Baekhyun will start hating him because Yixing had attacked his probably favourite part of his body. Essentially, Yixing is rolling the dice of, but not limited to: 1) Baekhyun will come apologize to him and try to be kinder from now on, 2) Baekhyun will become very scared of him whenever he is in his presence, 3) Baekhyun will start hating him and do whatever it takes to make Yixing's life miserable, 4) Baekhyun won't take all of this to heart and just brush it off, 5) Baekhyun will kill him, or 6) Baekhyun will die of his injuries.

The locker room is near the power training room except outside the mats. It looks nearly the same as the bathrooms: baby blue tiles on the walls, a white tiled floor, bright fluorescent lights. Showers line one wall and sinks the other, and this time, to Yixing's rejoice, there is an actual, authentic human toilet. Of course, there isn't a stall nor any sort of privacy walls provided, but it's still a toilet he doesn't have to strap himself to and then float around while doing his business in. There are also large white lockers that line the back wall, each labeled with the agent name in Hangul.

Yixing sees Sehun at the far left, as XUANXU. KAI is next to him. However, at the third one, the name tag is blank. Then, there's D.O, DOHBI, CHEN, HYUNEE, LAY, oh– that's him! SUHO– oh, that's Junmyeon! And then two blank ones, and then XIUMIN.

In total, there are twelve.

This time, Yixing stops, backing up to recount the lockers. Yes, there are definitely twelve. What's up with this number? Now that he's thinking about it, Yixing has seen twelve everywhere. And it's not like twelve is an exceptionally good number or anything. In every sense, all numbers are equal except if you're talking value, then there is none exactly the same. However, if it were going by value, then why wouldn't there be a thousand EXO members? (That was just a rhetorical question, Randomness. Just hypothetical. Please don't take that seriously).

So why is it always as if there are not just nine people in EXO, but twelve? Like there are things missing; gone. Yixing pulls pieces from his memory:

The twelve holes in the rec room's monitor.

The dining table too large for just the nine of them.

The twelve orbs they had to gather which were said to consolidate each member's powers.

Heck, even The Prophecy said it: The twelve forces!

And now this. Yixing narrows his eyes, looking at the three blank slates. They aren't in any apparent order, one all the way towards Sehun and then the final two right before Minseok. It's not like there isn't stuff Yixing doesn't know here, because that's definitely not the case, but it's that, he's now noticing, whenever he seems to inquire, he never gets a clear answer. Are there three to come? Or are there three that have already come? Where are they?

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