Neti Koonkleang

**Neti Koonkleang** is Population's representative in the third round of DTFOT, going against Prawit Wongsuwarn.

Neti Koonkleang is a famed swordsman hailing from feudal Thailand, often being referred to as "Thailand Strongest Swordsman" and "Windborne Swordsman".

## Appearance

Neti is a muscular young man with rather fair skin and an athletic physique. He has ruffled, dark reddish-purplish hair, combed back to expose his forehead, and wide eyes that are framed by an array of long eyelashes, their irises a dark to soft pale green, thin eyebrows and what could be a small, well-mannered mouth. he has a large burn scar on the left side of his face, which reaches from his hairline to halfway down his cheek.

Neti wore a white nanagi kimono with a mustard yellow tassel decoration, Over this, Neti wears a haori that's split down the middle into two different patterns: the right one a solid red, and the left one geometrically patterned with squares of green, orange, and yellow.

## Personality

From his youth Neti was a carefree, confident and mostly lazy individual, as he was considered little more than dead weight to his peers and masters at Grimm dojo. Neti can also be cowardly at times, always surrendering before a match was complete. However, he can be very diligent and hardworking at times, as seen when he struggled constantly trying to defeat various swordsmen, and through tough and rigorous training, surpassed them in due time. Neti harbors great respect for swordsmen he has fought, unwilling to let himself lose as to not bring shame upon their names and even showing utmost gratitude for molding him into the person he is today, especially when he won against Prawit Wongsuwarn.

However, Neti is very kind by nature and has been described by others as having very gentle eyes and a compassionate persona. He exhibits a great deal of determination and will not give up once he has a goal to achieve; the best example of this being his relentless quest to revenge his family. Even though he is relatively strong on his own, Neti isn't opposed to asking others for help when he needs it. He is very protective of his friends and even more so of civillians.

Under Neti's rather kind and friendly shell, is a person with a growing fire of rage and vengeance inside of them. Upon seeing Krittapat smirking after witnessing him slaughter three people indiscriminately with his shockwaves, he seethed with rage and confronted her alone. This side of Neti is fully exemplified after Natthapol's speech where he compares himself to a natural disaster. Neti responds to that by calling Natthapol "a being that should not exist." In the face of irrational evil. Neti shows a more cold and terrifying side of him, acting more violent towards his opponents as a result.

## Abilities

**Overall Abilities:** Neti possesses incredible innate talent in the sword, eventually becoming the greatest swordsman in existence, surpassing even Prawit in combat. He also has an innate talent of evolving and improving whenever he loses, which was the main factor which allowed him to surpass the likes of the governments with his mortal body.

**Golden Age:** As a human soul in the afterlife, Neti posses the appearance and skills that he had during his Golden Age, the age in which he was at his peak.

**Senju Musou (Thousands Image Defense):** Neti’s innate ability and talent which allows him to memorize and analyze his opponent's moves to form a simulation of them inside his mind, visualizing and battling said opponent until he finds a way to defeat them. This scanning ability is so advanced that he can already mentally simulate thousands of attack patterns that his opponent might possess after merely observing their constitution, gait, breath and blinking before the fight even begins. When fighting Prawit, Neti was able to improve this ability to the point when he not only was able to analyze his opponent's movements but also analyze the vibrations that travel through the air and ground, his movements being comparable to a government's.

* **Manju Musou (Infinite Image Defense):** During his fight with Prawit Wongsuwarn, Neti was able to improve his **Senju Musou** ability to the point where not only could he analyze his opponent's movements but also the information present in his surroundings using the vibrations travelling through the air and the ground, allowing him to predict his opponents movements even further and make his movements comparable to that of a Supreme Minister.

**Godly Strength:** Neti possesses immense physical strength, matching that of Prawit as shown when he could block and parry a majority of his trident attacks with the strength he channeled into his blade, even slicing his divine trident in 2. One of his techniques: **Black Wind Mountain Mist**, takes advantage of his phenomenal strength, allowing to stop the descent of a falling blade and swing it back up at speeds faster than the eye can see, a feat considered nigh-impossible with the strength of an average human being.

**Godly Speed & Reflexes:** Neti can move at speeds matching the likes of governments, as shown in his fight against Prawit where he could keep up with his countless afterimages and blinding speeds, even managing to overwhelming him.

**Swordsmanship:** Neti possesses a godly swordsmanship prowess. Even when he was young, he possessed innate talent in swordsmanship, being able to block the opening strike of Grimm without prior training. Throughout his lifetime, Neti has fought a myriad of prominent and legendary swordsman in Thailand, surpassing all of them one after another. During DTFOT, Neti displayed his swordsmanship skill when he unsheathed his sword, which calmed the raging tides in an instant, which Techit Chuchan remarked was a form of enlightenment. Even after his victorious, all of the opponents he has fought in the span of his lifetime, and later the entirety of Population, all acknowledge him as the most powerful swordsman in existence in his fight.

**Indomitable Will:** Neti possesses immense willpower, despite being told by his peers that he does not have talent for swordsmanship and losing multiple times, Kojiro never gave up and always learned from his mistakes. Despite having a moment of doubt during his fight with Prawit Wongsuwarn, Neti managed to regain his spirit through the support of his friends and rivals.

**Accelerated Development**: Due to his immense willpower and his innate **Senju Musou** ability, Neti is constantly improving his skills. Each time that Neti is defeated, he learns from his mistakes and create a new training regimen to further improve his swordsmanship. In fact, he is even capable of using **Senju Musou** to simulate fights with opponents that he's faced before in order to train with them.

## Techniques

**Furyu Style:** Neti's main form of swordsmanship, which involves standard but skillful movements and techniques with using his Tenmoku Kazeuchi, an katana which Neti wields using incredible speed and precision. This swordsmanship style was focus on Circular slashes and Destructive gales.

**Niten Furyu Style:** Neti's true swordsmanship style which infuses the Niten Ichi-ryū of Nopphadol Kantilerd and his initial "Furyu Style", Neti uses all the swordsmanship techniques and forms he's amassed and perfected over the centuries and infuses them all into a single all-encompassing fightning style. This form mainly combines the singular powerful slashes of Thanawat Thinchan, the high speed movements of Apisorn Kerdlaew, the swift thrusting attacks of Natthanan Pratchyapan, the swift strikes Krittinan Kamwanchan and finally, the flowing movements of Nopphadol Kantilerd.

## Trivia

* Neti's katana is similar to Sanemi Shinazugawa's katana from *Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba*.
* Based on Real Life, Neti is best friend of Peerawat Sanart like in manga and anime.
* The peoples that Neti only respect is his Master and his worthy opponents.
* Neti's haori was gives after he defeat Kuuchie same as Peerawat's haori that Neti give to him as gift.

## Quotes

* (To Jiraporn, Nawamon and Benja) "*It's been some 130 years since I ascended. And yet I* *continue to end**lessly pursue the way of the blade.* *Wind Breathing's evolution is far from over. In other words, **this** is my golden age.*"
* (To himself) "*Now then! How do I win this time?*"
* (To himself) "*Ah... This is it, huh... I wanted to fight more...*"
* (To Prawit) "*Have you ever lost yourself, and found you trained until the sun rose? Have you ever cried, tears of gratitude for those that made you stronger? Have you ever felt, love towards your opponent in a fight to the death?*"
* (To Prawit) "*The sword is our history. The hearts from idiots all across time. There's just no way that I'm losing to a guy that's never considered the hopes and dreams of others!*"
* (To himself) "*My path has always started with a loss. Once... just once... I... you know, **I want to win too!***"
* (To himself) "*For ages, men waged their lives upon those forged hunks of iron. To all those before me that formed the history of the blade... **Thank You.***"
* (To himself) "*I guess winning for once... feels pretty good, huh?*"
* (To the Seven Spokesmen and Chulalongkorn) "*Guess you governments are just selfish to the end, eh... No matter the time, you always think it'll go your way.*"