Pawoo Nekoyanagi

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**Pawoo Nekoyanagi** (猫柳 パウー) is a supporting character in the *Sabikui Bisco* series.

## Appearance

Pawoo is described as a beautiful, well-endowed young woman with dark-blue eyes and long, straight black hair that reaches past her waist. Despite having rust on her left side, she is still athletic and has a well-built physique. According to Milo Nekoyanagi, she has an E-cup. After Tetsujin's death, her left side of her body was cleared by the Rust Eaters.

## Personality

According to her brother, Pawoo is very passionate and well-mannered, but also a brute.

## Background

Pawoo is in bed and watches the news about the Mushroom terrorist, Bisco Akaboshi, reaching Imihama. As captain of the Imihama Watch, she dresses up and wants to go out and fight him. Milo attempts to stop her, but wanting to keep him safe, Pawoo knocks him out and goes out.

Reaching the Imihama Watch Station, the vice captain informs her of Bisco's whereabouts and that Milo's hospital was destroyed by Bisco. She heads out to look out for Bisco and eventually finds him and engages him in a fight. As they fight, Bisco tries to explain that mushrooms consume Rust and are not spreading it, but Pawoo doesn't believe him. Eventually, he mentions Milo, which causes her to be more reckless and doesn't realize he made her weapon useless by growing mushrooms on it, and ends up defeated by him. Bisco carries Pawoo to Milo, where they give her some mushroom medicine and Milo says his goodbyes as he heads out with Bisco, looking for Rust Easter mushroom to save Pawoo.

Pawoo decides to go after Bisco and Milo. She reaches Shimotsuka where she gets flat tire. She then hears a man asking for help and sees a couple about to be killed by a monster spider and goes and saves them. The couple invites her to their place, where she could fix her tire. There they tell her how the town got wiped by a mass rusting after a Mushroom Keeper came and made an experiment under the pretext he was healing them. After fixing her tire, she looks around and sees a tunnel, where she overhears the couple wants to poison and kill her. She realizes they set up a trap to blow her tire and pray on travellers and faces them. They manage escape her and she follows them outside of the tunnel. There the couple tells her they can't defeat her and knew such day would come and that they can live undisturbed in their shelter. They blow up the exit, trapping themselves in their shelter.

Pawoo eventually catches up to Bisco and Milo, and as she faces Bisco, she wants Milo back, not believing that Milo followed him on his own and that Bisco must had manipulated him. However, the Pipe Snake appears and captures Pawoo. Milo manages to free her, but as he is now in danger, Pawoo and Bisco team up to save Milo. They find the Rust Eater growing on the snake, but it has no special effects. Milo then accidentally realizes that the mushroom effects are activated with Bisco's blood. As he synthesizes a medicine, Pawoo starts to believe that the rumours about Mushroom Keepers are untrue and they are scientific saviours, but wonders about the old couple story. Kurokawa then attacks them and takes the snake and shoots Bisco with Rust Bullet.

The next day, Pawoo decides to take the medicine to Jabi, but doesn't take hers, stating that if Kurokawa sees her healed, he will want to know the Rust Eater secrets. Before leaving, she gives her medicine to Bisco, telling him to protect Milo and states that she finds his face cute, causing Bisco to blush. Pawoo then reaches the Imihama Watch at Shimabuki Base, but sees only one man, who's eyes are red and he attacks her, but she knows him down. Kurokawa then appears and shows that he have Jabi.

Kurokawa captures Pawoo and tortures her, wanting to know the secret of the Rust Eater. As she doesn't tell him, he records a message for Milo and Bisco, but Pawoo doesn't cooperate and tells Milo and Bisco to escape and that Bisco isn't weak. Later, when Bisco and Milo come to Shimabuki Base, Jabi had managed to escape and saves Pawoo, letting her escape, while he stays to temper with things. As she runs, she sees Kurokawa's special forces coming with government forces trucks and turns back. She then saves Jabi from a gorilla. The two continue to fight more gorillas, meanwhile a short circuit loads up the Ganesha Cannon and Pawoo throws a gorilla to knock it down and prevent it from fighting. Jabi and Pawoo then hear that Kurokawa is dead and Pawoo enters the facility to look for Bisco, but returns with Milo, who explains that Bisco is dead.

Pawoo suggest they get Bisco's body and burn it at Mushroom Keepers village, but Milo explains they don't do cremations and Bisco wanted his body to be left to the elements. When the Tetsujin is revived, Milo decides to go after it, while Jabi and Pawoo remain to unbury Actagawa, who got covered in Rust by the Tetsujin. They later join Milo and help him save some traders. Jabi and Milo then fight the Tetsujin, but get knocked down a cliff by a large attack from the Tetsujin.

Pawoo joins Tirol, who claims to be Milo's friend. Tirol reveals she found a Tetsujin manual and Pawoo takes it to read it, but can't understand it. After returning to Shimobuki base and reuniting with the Imihama Watch, she and Tiro head towards the Tetsujin, picking up Jabi on their way. Reaching it, Pawoo jumps from an Escargot fighter and attacks the Tetsujin. The Escargot fighters attack the Tetsujin, but he ends up destroying them. As he is about to kill the group, Actagawa protects them and Milo then heads after the Tetsujin and Pawoo later follows him. They catch up to the Tetsujin in front of Imihama and see Bisco getting revived and coming out of the Tetsujin. As they fight the Tetsujin, it starts bulging up and Tirol reveals it will self-destruct if they attack it and they need to kill the pilot. Guessing the pilot is behind the iron helmet, Pawoo explains she can break the armor with her pole without causing shockwaves. She looks at Bisco and states she doesn't have many desires, but its no fun heading out to her death without a word of thanks. Feeling awkward, Bisco tells her if she comes back alive, he will give her anything she wants. Pawoo then kisses him, stating she will be taking him. Using Actagawa, Pawoo manages to reach the Tetsujin head and splits its armor in two, revealing Kurokawa behind it, and Bisco and Milo later defeat him. Following the events of the Tetsujin defeat, Pawoo now fully healed, becomes the new governor of Imihama and declares independence from the Japanese Government as well denounced the persecution of Mushroom Keepers and abandoned Bisco's wanted poster. Pawoo later married to Bisco.

## Abilities

**Master Polesmansip:** Pawoo possesses great mastery in polesmanship and her skills in polesmanship are of the highest caliber.

**Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant:** Despite favoring the use of her pole, Pawoo has proven herself to be a skilled hand-to-hand combatant.

## Etymology

* Pawoo's surname **Nekoyanagi** means "cat" (猫) (**neko**) and "willow" (柳) (**yanagi**).