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In the finals, Iori confronts the remaining members of the Four Heavenly Kings (of which Goenitz was a part of) who make up Team New Faces (Yashiro Nanakase, Shermie, and Chris), who initially joined to exact revenge on Iori for upstaging them at a previous concert gig. Prior to the events of The King of Fighters '97, he has a nightmare of two women mocking him for not being able to kill Kyo he awakens enraged and coughing up blood, vowing to defeat his rival once and for all, and later joins the 1997 tournament without a team. During the competition, Iori meets Chizuru Kagura, the heir to the Yata clan who intends to gather him and Kyo in the hopes of sealing the demon they eventually come together in the finals to defeat Goenitz, who dies saying he does not want to underestimate the power of either Orochi or Iori this declaration strikes fear upon Mature and Vice, who are violently killed by Iori, unable to control his transformation into Orochi Iori. After a brief fight, the ladies agree to join Iori and enter the tournament as Team Yagami. In The King of Fighters '96, Iori is informed of his rival's intentions to join the tournament by two mysterious women calling themselves Mature and Vice, who are secretly in league with the game's antagonist Goenitz as all three are descendants of Orochi. By the end of the tournament, Iori severely injures his teammates to show a dying Rugal Bernstein the Orochi power within him, and vows to eliminate Kyo and his clan next. Iori's first appearance is in The King of Fighters '95 as a part of Team Rivals alongside Fatal Fury's Billy Kane and Art of Fighting's Eiji Kisaragi, with his reasons for joining purely to meet Kyo Kusanagi. Despite the demonic power he harbors, he does not care much for his family history and would rather spend his time playing sports or performing in gigs with his saxophone and bass guitar. Iori is the current possessor of Orochi's power, which results in his long standing rivalry with the series' first central protagonist Kyo Kusanagi, something that is heavily implied to be out of instinct however, recent depictions of both have transitioned their tense rivalry into something of an odd couple, with Iori remarking that even he's not sure why they keep bickering nowadays. In ancient times, the Yasakani clan (the ancestors of the Yagami clan) betrayed the Yata and Kusanagi clans to make a blood pact with the devil Orochi that gave them immense power, but consequently cursed their descendants forever. Iori is a trauma survivor, mainly due to the actions of his clan.
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Though despite his personality and behavior towards others he is not known to be antagonistic and follows a moral code, and even famously does not like violence. He is not known to make friends or create enemies, instead preferring to be a lone wolf depending on his teammates, he can be at best distant but cooperative, but at worst apathetic and at times downright treacherous. Iori Yagami is a no-nonsense, blunt, and rude young man with a ruthless, sadistic, and violent side his fighting style reflects this, as he practices the Yasakani style of ancient martial arts that typically incorporates wild clawing-based attacks.