Yang Jun-Kyu

Yang Jun-Kyu
Full Name	Yang Jun-Kyu
Date of Birth	December 7th
Blood Type	A+
Nationality	South Korea
Affiliation
Affiliation(s)	Mithril
Real World
First appearance	"Labyrinth and Dragon"
Seiyū	Nozomu Sasaki
VA	John Gremillion

Yang Jun-Kyu (Korean:양준규, Yang Jun-Gyu) is a member of Mithril 's Special Response Team, or SRT for short. He is typically tasked with bodyguard duties for Tuatha de Danaan's high-ranking officers, and also serves as a field soldier on SRT operations.

Biography

Yang joined Mithril as a mercenary and was assigned to the Western Pacific Fleet's Special Response Team (SRT), where he has the rank of Corporal. His call sign in Uruz-9.

Yang is seen by his colleagues as a highly competent commando with specialisation in VIP protection and Counter-Terrorism, although he is also perceived as being overly trusting. Unlike many of his SRT colleagues he is not proficient in the use of Arm Slaves.

Yang is often responsible for protecting Teletha Testarossa as her bodyguard. In the A21 incident, Yang accompanied Tessa to the military facility in Japan where the young AS pilot Takuma Kugayama was being held. When the facility came under attack from an Rk-92 Savage, Yang protected Tessa from an exploding window and was wounded by several shards of glass in his back.

Despite his severe injuries, Yang led Tessa and the captive pilot to an escape vehicle and took them as far away as he could manage before almost passing out from blood loss. Tessa dropped him at a telephone booth and called an ambulance for him before escaping to Sousuke Sagara's residence in Tokyo.

After recovering in hospital, Yang made it back to Merida Island and rejoined the SRT.

During the Nanking Tunnel hostage incident, Yang was involved in leading a team of SRT commandos designated the name "Topaz". Team Topaz navigated the tunnels and beat several traps set by Amalgam forces to eventually reach the hostages, but when the operation was found to be an elaborate ruse masking the attempted capture of the ARX-7 Arbalest, members of the SRT infantry team were killed by Amalgam agent Xia Yu Lan who was hiding in the hostages. After repelling her attack and forcing her to flee, the team found themselves trying to fight their way back to the surface.

Yang also participated in the search for the rogue Codarl-m during the Hong Kong incident. Paired with another SRT member, Yang discovered a corpse left by Gauron's proteges, which had a clue to lead Sousuke to his location written on it.

Later during that mission, Yang was tasked with tracking Sousuke after he abandoned the search for the AS. After finding him courtesy of a large explosion, he attempted to coerce the despondent Sousuke back into piloting the ARX-7, which he had guided to drop on Sousuke's location. After Sousuke refused to ever pilot the ARX-7 again, Yang drew a gun and threatened to shoot him, as he displayed the traits of an Amalgam mercenary. When Kaname Chidori also arrived at the scene of the explosion, Yang was threatened by her and left the scene.

"A soldier without a soul is just a killer. If you wanna to talk like a terrorist I'm gonna treat you like one".

During Amalgam's first attack on Merida Island, Yang was part of the SRT force ordered to protect the base from the incoming assault forces. While unable to join the AS team, he was tasked with the personal protection of Tessa during her escape from the bases command centre to the Tuatha de Danaan. During the escape run Yang and Tessa engaged several Amalgam soldiers and Yang was shot and wounded in the chest. He was about to be executed before Melissa Mao ambushed the aggressors and killed them, thereby allowing himself and Tessa to reach the safety of the submarine, where he was able to make a full recovery.

Yang was also active in the Mithril attack on the Soviet nuclear base in Afghanistan (Helmajistan) leading a group of SRT soldiers to storm the facility. In spite of their C-17 transport being shot out the sky and his close friend and colleague Woo getting severely injured in the same incident, Yang and most of the team parachuted to the drop-zone and carried out their attack to prevent a nuclear missile launch.

Yang was last actively seen preparing a Mithril assault team to storm a US air base on Okinawa to extract SRT member Sousuke Sagara, who was being held captive by the US military.