Encoding string to bytes is adding unnecessary "00"s

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Good day,

I have a 16 byte string which I encode to bytes and then immediately convert it to a readable Hex string. The result is that it added 00 after every single Hex and I cannot seem to understand why.

My String:

var message1 = "Thats my Kung Fu";

Conversion:

var stringToByte = Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(message1);
var stringByte = BitConverter.ToString(stringToByte);

And the outcome is:

54 00 68 00 61 00 74 00 73 00 20 00 6D 00 79 00 20 00 4B 00 75 00 6E 00 67 00 20 00 46 00 75 00

Expected outcome:

54 68 61 74 73 20 6D 79 20 4B 75 6E 67 20 46 75

Why is it acting like that? Is there a way to encode the bytes without 00? Please point me to the right direction. I tried to search similar issue online (or is it not an issue?), couldn't find anything related.

Thank you

What I have tried:

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