 The group leaves the facility and emerges in a desert landscape on the Moon . The year is 2074 and most of humanity was killed by Radical @-@ 6 after it was unleashed by Free the Soul from a Mars mission test site in 2028 . They re @-@ enter the facility and discover a cold sleep pod . K explains that he grew up in the facility with Zero Sr. and Akane , and each person was brought to the facility to recreate the events that the two had previously experienced . Clover , Alice , and Phi were abducted in 2028 and placed in cold sleep until the Nonary Game began . The pod opens to reveal a clone of Sigma , and then K reveals he is actually Akane in disguise . Depending on whether or not Dio murdered Akane in a given timeline , either Sigma 's clone or Akane was occupying K 's armor , a quantum superposition . 
