Chapter 264 Awkward Sisters

This situation is quite odd.

From a surface level and common sense perspective, the current state of affairs should be that we've smoothly destroyed the enemy's most powerful Fortress Ship, inflicted heavy losses on the ambush troops, forced the opposing fleet to flee in disarray, and at the same time successfully captured a High Order Enemy Commander, and then naturally we should be prying information from the captured Commander with "tiger benches" and "chili water," right? Well, okay, even if the last part is cut for being discordant, at least the earlier parts fall under normal logical circumstances, don't they?

But in reality, the sequence of events feels off no matter how I think about it...

The enemy's Fortress Ship did crash, but it was sunk by their own commander's meddling, and that unfortunate Fortress Ship destroyed almost its entire escort squadron when it self-destructed. During all this, their commander was toddling along with our Leader...