Goenitz

ゲーニッツ / 高尼茨

Goenitz serves as the final boss in The King of Fighters '96. He leads the Four Heavenly Kings of Orochi; wielding the power to command wind, his complete title as a heavenly king is Goenitz of the Wildly-Blowing Wind (Fukisusabu Kaze no Gēnittsu).
From a young age, Goenitz understood his duty as a Heavenly King and hurried to revive his lord, Orochi. To achieve this goal, he worked as a religious missionary, traveling to assist those in need. At eighteen, he challenged Rugal Bernstein and effortlessly defeated the older man by removing one of his eyes. As an experiment, he bestowed some of Orochi's power upon his opponent to determine if he could serve as a suitable host for the entity. Goenitz later tasked two other Hakkeshu members, Mature and Vice, with monitoring the crimelord.
Meanwhile, he visited a remote village where a Hakkeshu member, Gaidel, was residing. Surprisingly, Gaidel was living peacefully and showed no interest in their lord's mission. In response, Goenitz triggered the Riot of the Blood in Gaidel's daughter, Leona, which resulted in the deaths of her parents and all other villagers. Satisfied with the outcome, he sealed her memories and continued searching for methods to accelerate his lord's revival. Observing that the seal containing Orochi was too strong, he visited the Yata household. He killed the current clan head, Maki Kagura, to weaken the seal's power.
Sometime after the 1995 tournament, he also chose to track the Three Sacred Treasures that had previously defeated his lord. Having already assessed Chizuru Kagura, and with Mature and Vice watching Iori Yagami, Goenitz decided to personally test Kyo Kusanagi's strength. Although he anticipated a glorious battle from the 1995 champion, he defeated the Kusanagi heir with ease. Later, he interrupts the 1996 tournament to eliminate all three heirs simultaneously. In the tournament's final events, he is defeated by Kyo, aided by Iori and Chizuru. Humiliated, Goenitz saves face and appears to have taken his own life following the tournament, leaving Kyo as the champion.