Costume and Outfit
Killy's outfit changes five times throughout the manga. His first outfit is a baggy, black jumpsuit. He later receives a tight, synthetic suit for his journey with Cibo. Next, when he finds a Safeguard armory, he finds a synthetic and moderately plated armor suit similar to that of suit that Dhomochevsky wears.
After losing 40.82% of his body mass, he regenerates a sort of natural and advanced Safeguard armor which looks like that of the Safeguards' that attack him in the final chapter. This is sometimes referred to by fans as "The Playford outfit" (due to it reading "PLAYFORD" on occasional white strips found on it) and is the final outfit that he uses. It features details derived of all the others, along with something resembling a collared flak jacket.
Killy has been alive for a very long time; when he lost a large portion of his body mass, it took him over 14 years to regenerate; a lift trip took a minimum of 33 days. Tsutomu Nihei has stated that Killy is over 3000 years old and his memory loss is merely a side-effect of his aging.
Eventually, he reaches the edge of the city with the Net Terminal Gene carrier, and in the last frame of the manga, he is shown to be alive and well, firing his gun past the camera, with the Net Terminal Gene carrier behind him, clothed in protective gear against the poison the Silicon Creatures introduced.
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