Ram reached the ground late due to the story telling session. When he reached he saw all four cadets who he had summoned. The first term SL Nick, 3rd term SL prabhu and the cadet who failed to salute him and his friend.

They saluted him. And he said at ease.

Ram:"state your mistakes "he said in a raw tone pointing from the unknown cadet to prabhu

Cadet:" Failed to salute you, and not having an appropriate reason sir"he said in a loud tone to not get in more trouble. Ram slightly nodded his head and moved towards Nick.

Nick:"not having a proper count of my squid. Not knowing the reason for a cadet's disappearance. Giving the wrong count without checking twice,sir"

Ram:"and... "

Nick understood that he was also talking about his bad performance in today's drill.

Nick:"not performing up to the mark, sir"

Ram:"fine"

Prabhu:"losing temper, punishing the first term cadets , tiring them out, with no appropriate reason, trying to hide it from the instructors.sir"

Ram:"mm.. I am giving one more chance to reason yourself, anyone"

Cadets:"no, sir"

Ram:"cadet, salute that wall 10 times perfectly with five pushups between each one. And you cadet monitor him if he misses even one you are responsible for it . I have informed your instructor. Further punishments will be given by her"

Cadet:"yes sir "and went to do the task at hand.

Ram:" How many cadets are in your squid" He asked looking towards Nick.

Nick:"forty eight sir"

Ram:"say the factors of forty eight "

Nick:"1, 2,3,4,6,12,16,24,48,sir"without hesitation

Ram:"6 times what is forty eight "in a sarcastic tone

Nick:" 8,sir"knowing he messed up real time. He never thought math would be needed in a military academy.

Ram:"so, your math is worse than a kindergardener. Even my son could count 48 without any issues. Name each one of your cadet and the number of letters in their full name. Do that many pull ups write each other's name in the sand I will be back for motivation. Tomorrow 0500 you have a math rapid fire on your 11th grade syllabus "

Nick:"yes sir" And start doing pull ups beginning with his name.

Ram:"what happened yesterday? "

Prabhu:"they pulled a hot sauce prank on us sir. "

Ram:"how do you know it's them"

Prabhu:"the second term cadets were on a camp. The fourth and fifth term cadets did not reach the mess as they were trained a little extra. Which left only us and first term cadets in the mess. Noone in our term pulled that prank. So in the meeting I asked who did it no one accepted it so we punished the whole batch, sir"

Ram:"did you find the culprit? "

Prabhu:"no, sir"

Ram:"what punishment was given "

Prabhu:"crawling on the garden for 15 rounds, 25 push ups each., 25 situps, 10minute plank. And the same cycle repeated twice sir"

Ram:"uh, boring.(to himself) Go do the same routine 5 times. I will need to check your anger levels."

Ram left the ground to go to his office and brought his legendary cane with him.

When he returned back everyone was shocked to see him with his not so famous cane. The cadets speed increased in an instant. The cadet completed his salutes and came to report to him. He sent him off.

He went to check on Nick who completed 21 names . Nick did his pullups in a decent speed so ram let him be. He reached Prabhu he got tired the second round. Finally he found someone who needed H. He gave the motivation with pleasure. He also wants to test his patience

Ram was waiting for them to complete their punishment. Nick completed his pullups finally and reported to Ram.

Nick:"sir, completed "ram checked all the names and in fact they were right.

Ram:"good, go get your sleep and get ready for the rapid fire tomorrow"

Nick:"I will take my leave sir, thank you sir"saying this he ran away to sleep.

Prabhu completed his task and reported to Ram.

Ram:"how do you feel? "

Prabhu:"tired, sir"

Ram:"do you think you are worthy for this position with all your anger issues "

Prabhu:"yes, sir. I will work on improving myself sir"

Ram:"here's a piece of advice, when ever you feel angry think of the person who you love the most. Punching bags can also help. It is very hard to control anger. You have to learn to channelize it. Ask me if you need any help. Good night"saying this he left the place leaving Prabhu to rethink his miseries.

Ram looked at his watch the time was already 0130.he went to abhis room to see him sleeping hugging his teddy bear

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