He looked at the wolf then said slowly "Do you see what I did just now? He's clearly weaker than me, yet I still hit him near death. This is what you call "respect your elders", I am this child's elder and just taught him a lesson for behaving wrong, later on, when you take on juniors, you are qualified to do the same. Did you see how he was instantly ready to apologize? That is because he knows he was in the wrong.
Let me ask you, when you know you are in the wrong, do you think your elder should show you mercy just because you apologize? No, when you know you are wrong, yet you still do something wrong and even expect an apology to be everything needed to solve the issue, then you aren't respecting your elders, you are taking them as a joke.