Minoru Kurata is a reporter for Weekly Search magazine. He is sent to stalk Ren Honjo and Nana Osaki to get proof of the two being together. He does so and it turns into a scandal between Blast and Trapnest He questions Misuzu Uehara about her daughter's disappearence.
The bonus pages are only absent in volume 20, because Ai Yazawa thought that it would be inappropriate due to the ending of the Chapter 77.Uehara.
Recent chapters reveal that Mai may actually have a secret she prefers not to reveal since the tabloids have discovered Nana's father's surname may actually be "Tsuzuki", which would imply that she, like Misato Uehara, is Nana's half-sister.