Astral Odyssey: Dying Ember
The black bugs had detected movement and were hot on their heels, quickly gaining on them.
Naoko found the entire setting weird and did not know, for once, how things would progress. Hansuke, with the death fate, was the furthest from the bugs that were the ones responsible for his death in the book. /Will another appear in front of us?/
Eventually, the black bugs got too close to Aimi's and Isamu's mechas, so Naoko descended down to the sand with the instruction to mimic the worm creature. Coincidentally, Aimi went down to the ground at the same time she did, sharing the same idea.