prove his strength in seeking a rematch against Terry and avenging his pass loss towards him and Mr. Big seeks to regain his status as the undisputed crime lord of South Town's criminal underworld from Geese, vowing to one day eliminate him. As the Boss Team disbanded at the end of The King of Fighters '96, Geese creates and sponsors his own team known as the Outlaw Team for the same purpose. The team for the KOF '97 tournament is made up of Billy Kane, Blue Mary, and Ryuji Yamazaki. The team would later appear in The King of Fighters 2003, with Blue Mary being replaced by Gato. Geese eventually returns to the tournament in The King of Fighters XIV, where he becomes the main leader of the South Town Team, which consists of him, Billy, and Geese's personal butler named Hein. The team returns in The King of Fighters XV as DLC, with Yamazaki (who was previously a DLC character in KOF XIV) replacing Hein. It is later revealed that Hein, alongside Luong are in fact secret agents working with certain organizations, whereas Hein goes undercover as Geese's butler and even secretly enlists Yamazaki to figure out what Geese's next plan is during the fourth saga. Ikari Warriors Team The Ikari Warriors Team is a group of mercenaries that enters in each tournament in the series in order to find well-known criminals and capture them. The leader established the team in order find the criminal Rugal Bernstein, in order that Heidern could get his revenge against Rugal (who killed Heidern's wife Sandra and their daughter Clara). The other two recurring members of the team are the soldiers Ralf Jones and Clark Still, who were originally the player characters in Ikari Warriors and its sequels. , Heidern's adopted daughter introduced in The King of Fighters '96, replaces him as he takes on a more active role behind the scenes, investigating occurrences parallel to the tournament. Although she tends to be very quiet, Leona was conceived to be an Orochi descendant at the time of her debut, and her designers took special care to let their interests at the time reflect in her actions. Her official nickname is The Silent Soldier. Although she recovers from her childhood trauma at the end of King of Fighters '97, she leaves the team after attacking her friends in the Riot of the Blood state