Hello, Mr. Major General (1)

Chapter 116 - Does It Look Good?

Shehnaaz’s small and exquisite face beamed, her eyes with a natural circle lens effect curved into crescents. She
bounced into Rohit’s room and landed in front of the computer on his desk. Sidharth had both hands in his trouser pockets and looked straight ahead as he walked past Deepak’s back to take a shower in the bathroom. He suddenly caught a glimpse of Deepak’s laptop monitor as it showed Shehnaaz stumble in front of the camera in a
black T-shirt that covered her thighs.

The corners of Sidharth’s eyes twitched when he saw her manga
character like face and glowingly pale long legs. Sidharth strode up without any hesitation and karate chopped Deepak, whose back was facing him, in the back of the neck. Deepak received the sudden blow to the back of his neck and lost his balance, falling to his face with thud and toppling on the ground. He landed underneath the desk. Sidharth then stepped on his
back with one foot and leaned towards the monitor as he grasped the mouse and minimized the window. He growled, “Sana, go change! Who allowed you to run around dressed like this?! –Big Rohit, turn around! Face the wall for one hour!” Sidharth’s deep and indescribably magnetic voice sounded from the speakers on Rohit’s laptop. The last word had a slight lilt and was like a hook that had Shehnaaz’s heart hanging in mid-air. She was shocked and subconsciously covered her chest, “Uncle Sid! I just want to talk to you! I want to listen to your voice! I… I… I’ll turn off the webcam?”

“It’s fine, you go change. I’ll wait for you.” Sidharth paused and lightly clicked to stop the video.

Shehnaaz hastily answered, “You said you’d wait! I, I, I, I’ll go change right away!” She looked down at herself and her scalp went numb. Oh no! How could she forget this! This sleep shirt slipped through the net… Now she was caught red handed by its owner.

Shehnaaz’s tiny face flushed instantly. She turned to leave Rohit’s room and
zipped into her own room to change. Poor Rohit reflexively turned around upon Sidharth’s order! He obediently face the wall in military stance, not even daring to look anywhere but straight ahead.

Shehnaaz went back to her own room and didn’t have time to find any nice clothing. She quickly took off the black T- shirt and put on a fully  covered tube shaped long sleeve cotton sleep gown and slippers before rushing back.

Deepak in the meanwhile, was still immobilized by Sidharth’s foot. He heard that the laptop go silent and called out, “Mr. Shukla, please have mercy, let me face the wall! My bones are about to be crushed by you…”

Sidharth looked down at him and removed his foot. He sat down in the office chair that Deepak had been in.

Deepak groaned as he crawled up from the floorboards and was about to speak when Sidharth shot daggers at him. He hastily motioned to scoop out his eyes, then zipped his mouth shut–he didn’t see anything and won’t say anything…

Sidharth was very annoyed and ignored him as he clicked on the cursor again, “Go check if the network is secure and see if the earlier footage… was cached. If there was anything, wipe it clean.”

Deepak sighed and rubbed his back that was trampled by Sidharth earlier. He took out another laptop and checked the video. The system had indeed cached it, and the network had a copy too. Deepak snuck a glance at
Sidharth before secretly pressing down against the laptop. He curiously and carefully looked at what images
made Sidharth react so strongly…

When he saw it was merely Shehnaaz in a long T-shirt, he almost wanted to roll his eyes.

“…What are you rolling your eyes for?” Sidharth’s voice suddenly sounded from behind Deepak’s back.

Deepak didn’t expect Sidharth to walk behind him again and had to force his half complete eye roll to a stop. Ah! This high level difficulty maneuver was going to give his eyes a cramp!

“Mr. Shukla, this was too unnecessary and overly conservative of you. Sana is dressed normally! All young girls dress like this, I’ve seen short shorts that show off half a butt, what’s this in comparison?!” Deepak rubbed his throbbing eyes, extremely vexed.

Sidharth pursed his lips. He put both hands in his trouser pockets and he thought about it with a deadpan expression–this outfit did seem pretty normal…

“Think about it, be it young ladies from our nation or Europe, Sana’s outfit isn’t scandalous at all. She would be
pretty cute dressed liked this even if she just went out for an errand…” Deepak pointed to the frozen image to
analyze in detail, “Look, only her collarbones, half her thighs and calves are exposed. She even has slippers so you can’t even see her toes, what’s the big deal? Was it worth putting me and Big Rohit through all that?! She’s a young lady! She’s not even a woman to me and Big Rohit!”

“Are you displeased with me?” Sidharth’s voice deepened like it was coming from his chest. If one leaned
against his chest to listen carefully, they could almost hear the echo and resonance.

Deepak had a full body shudder and was so terrified he wanted to curl up. He cradled his head and said, “I don’t
dare! I don’t dare!”

Sidharth only used this voice when he was enraged; Deepak didn’t understand where he touched a nerve…

Sidharth was actually angry with himself–he was angry that he overreacted without any reason. It was because even though Deepak and Rohit couldn’t even tell if the simple and modest long black T-shirt was meant for a man or a woman–but to him, just one a glimpse was enough to set his heart out of beat momentarily… Sidharth silently turned and sat back
down on the chair. He crossed his legs and held his breath.

No one did anything wrong, except for him. That was too much.

He had extraordinary self-restraint and was able to recover in one breath’s time. He clicked on the video and said to Rohit, who was still facing the wall, “Big Rohit, come here. I have something to ask you.”

Rohit knew this meant his punishment was over and sighed in great relief. He answered cheerfully and bounced over. He gave a giant smile to the webcam and guaranteed, “Mr. Shukla, don’t worry. I’ll take good care of Sana and won’t let her go out like that!”

Shehnaaz was changed and overheard Rohit betray her to flatter Sidharth. She angrily knocked his head from behind, “Brother Big Rohit! What nonsense are you saying?! When did I ever go out in pyjamas?!”

Rohit was grateful that Shehnaaz was here to rescue him, he chuckled before scurrying off to cradle his head, “I was just giving an example! Don’t take it seriously! Here, have it, you talk to them first!”

Shehnaaz rolled her eyes at him and didn’t hesitate to sit on Rohit’s chair. She looked up to see Sidharth’s despairingly beautiful face on the monitor and his usual aloof expression that sent hearts throbbing. It was all too familiar and she felt especially warm and satisfied.

She immediately gave the webcam an adorable smile and asked in a honeyed voice, “Uncle Sid, I changed! Does it
look good?”

“Mhmm, looks good.” Sidharth said casually.

Rohit and Deepak pouted at the same time, from different corners of Blue Planet.

What the hell! How does that nun-like, straight cut cylindrical dress look good at all?! Both of them should go see the Indian Army Hospital’s ophthalmologist-in-charge!

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