When they stormed the base Asus was pleasantly surprised to notice that  some of the motionless pupae had finished metamorphosis thus increasing his number of usable hornets. However he was quickly reminded to focus on the battle unless he wanted to end up like Lenwood and Satoru thanks to a truly bizarre threat from one of the Marines. "I'm gonna eat yer babies!"

Because of that he had just enough time to  jump back out of the reach of a wildly swinging Marine. He quickly put up a Kabe in front of him. Since the "wall of  hornets wasn't enough to cover him completely he hoped that the threat of getting stung by tens of hornets would get them to reconsider slashing again, if that didn't work he hoped the Marine was at least stupid to go for the parts of his body that the wall actually did protect and thus get stung.

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Total number of hornets in Asus' body is 87. Number of hornets used for combat 60, hornets currently in use 30/60, dead hornets 6/60