After parting ways with the ship Elena in her roleplay of Carmelia started to interrogate the bandits. She could have just read their mind but as currently she was role playing as Carmelia a Fighter Summoner, she did not want to use something that did not have access to with this build. So she just used normal interrogation methods by telling Echidna, her dear slime familiar to suffocate them.
The truth she learned from the pirates was very interesting. This was not just one pirate group but five gangs working together. The level 500 plus leader guy was actually not a pirate. He was a general of a nation who was exiled for being involved in some kind of crime. So to get new subordinates for himself he came to the pirate groups one by one and subjugated them with his superior strength. That's how this large group was created.
