Of course Asus knew his plan to punch the acid spitting turtle-man in the face was stupid, but he didn't have any other attacks that even had a chance of hurting Yami. What made the situation even worse was that he had no idea if his spy would find the key and that he would definitely lose if the fight went on long enough.

So he had to get his hornets as close possible to Yami without them getting killed, and even then the turtle-man wasn't allowed to know what he was doing hence the punch. He saw Yami opening his mouth but wasn't too worried as the target for his fist was one of the Marines' eyes. As the pirate thrusthed his arm forwards he went over his plan in his mind: step 1 punch Yami in the eye, step 2 use seven hornets to further increase the damage and step 3 no matter how the other two steps went use the distraction and the fact that he was close enough to touch the opponent to enact his real plan.

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Total number of hornets in Asus' body is 100. Number of hornets used for combat 65, hornets currently in use 1/65, dead hornets 28/65