Chapter 142
“Hey, you over there.”
“Did you call me?”
Peloss answered, flustered by Dojae’s call.
The gathered Titans murmured and watched from the top of the stairs.
“Is there anything else we need to do for the Coming-of-Age Ceremony?”
“We still need to engrave your name in the hall, offer prayers to the goddess, and finally hold the celebratory procession…”
Dojae listened quietly, then stroked his chin before slapping his thigh and declaring.
“So it’s all just empty formalities after all.”
“Wh-what did you just say? Formalities?”
“Now that I say it, I think I might have made a mistake. I sincerely apologize for the somewhat harsh remark.”
Dojae placed a hand on Theus’s shoulder.
He wanted to convey the feeling of an adult comforting a child, but with Theus standing over two meters tall, he had to stretch his arm fully just to place his hand on his shoulder.
In any case, Dojae acknowledged that using the derogatory term ’empty formalities’ in his frustration was a slip of the tongue and apologized sincerely.
For the small group of Titans, rituals might be an important mechanism for forging bonds, and dismissing them like that was clearly a disrespectful attitude.
“Anyway, I saw this guy take down the Thunderclap with my own eyes. And that was before I gave him anything to eat. So I hope you’ll acknowledge your son has become a warrior and simplify the coming-of-age ceremony to wrap it up sooner.”
