Unlike the teams from Ravensmouth College, the Flame and Metal Trading Company, and the White Tower Alliance, they weren't into setting up ambushes or launching surprise attacks.
They preferred a direct approach, head-on collision, a frontal assault.
Watching this, Link felt he could use it to his advantage, but ultimately suppressed the temptation to unite the Flame and Metal Trading Company and the White Tower Alliance to gang up on them.
There wasn't a need to forcibly take the lead.
If the teams of the Flame and Metal Trading Company and the White Tower Alliance intended to deal with the team from the Tower of the Great Sage Mitchell, they didn't need Link to stir them up, they'd act on their own.
If not, Link leading the charge would merely expose himself and serve no other purpose.
Inside the warship of the Flame and Metal Trading Company's team.