The two just realised that they left behind a grand fleet of ships, one that formed their entire pirate force. On top of that, they left behind all the warriors whom they got from Hye.
"We might have taken a big loss from this," Hye went to the deck of the flagship, sat on the commander seat before adding, "yet we just left behind the ships, empty without a single warrior."
"What?!!!" both of them said in the same breath, and soon it hit them, "that's why… That's why you kept moving around at the last stretch, you were taking the warriors back…" the pirate king realised what was Hye busy doing before they escaped, finally linking the dots.
"They were your warriors to begin with, you had their tokens," the lady nymph nodded in realisation, "good move! Brilliant one actually, and yet… Why did you insist we put the ships on autopilot?"
"You think of a reason," Hye sounded like he enjoyed such a situation, so Hye didn't volunteer to explain anything, letting them do all the thinking.
