Mamoru learned.
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That Igawa had known more.
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More about his future from Haruka, but heremained still.
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In the end it was Mamoru himself who slowlyrealized his future with Haruka when she grew up every year.
护发现了，关于自己身上即将发生的事，井川早就从遥那里知道了不少，只闭口不提罢了。
反正随着遥慢慢长大，自己最终都会慢慢意识到的。
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It was Sierra who dropped every little hintabout Haruka constantly blushing when he couldn't even see her reddened face.
由于自己看不见，还是薛娜在旁边一次不落的提醒着他遥的脸颊不时的泛起绯红。
Many people had commented on her beauty,which he had predicted, but could not admire for himself.
听过不少人的评价，他对她的外貌心中有数，只是他自己无法称赞什么。
A shame really, though viewing her contourswas more than enough for him.
对他来说，虽然只要看得到她的轮廓就已经足够，但还是有点可惜呢。
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Once Igawa and him had overheard Juliettcomplaining to Haruka that the girl had no talent in applying make-up to herface. The girl quietly answered she never wore make-up on daily basis.
有一次他和井川无意听到朱丽叶在数落遥在美妆方面全无天赋时，遥悄悄地说自己之前从未化过妆。
"I'm sure she's fine without,"Mamoru said with much indifference.
"It's not like you can see her!"Juliett argued.
He had shrugged.
It was the truth, and something about thattruth made Igawa laugh.
"Oh Haruka-chan, you're socute~."
"Shu-shut up, Igawa-san!"
“她不化妆也可以的。”护毫不在意的说。
“反正你也看不见！”朱丽叶反驳道。
护耸肩。
这句话倒是真的，只是不知道在这句话的哪个成分里，井川捡了个大笑料，在那笑个不停。
“嗷，遥酱，你太可爱了~”
“别-别说啦，井川！”
Mamoru couldn't understand thereason behind his amusement and why Haruka kept on stuttering that day to him;he blamed that on being an insider's joke.
护不明白他为什么笑，也不明白为什么那天遥和他说话一直结结巴巴的，可能因为这里有什么他不知道的梗吧。
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Though when they had started to practicekendo, he had caught a whiff of a sweet scent of perfume, and halted herwavering whack to the head with his hand.
然而那天的剑道课上，当把挥舞的竹刀停在她头上时，他捕捉到了一股香水的甜味
"Mamoru-san?"
"Hm."
He bent down near her ear and could feelher shiver next to him. The scent was extremely sweet, almost caught betweenthe point of being pleasant and sickening, but he could handle anything of thatmatter.
"...is that strawberry?" heasked.
"....what?"
“护？”
“唔。”
他俯向她耳畔，距离近得可以感觉到她在颤抖。那气味极其香甜，甜在了愉悦与厌恶的临界点上，不过他对此毫不在意。
“草莓的？”他问。
“…什么？”
He could see her mouth dropping slightly.Interesting. Mamoru knew the fact of that she happened to use scents vigorouslyon her body, but never knew about the fact she didn't use make-up.
他可以看见她的嘴微微张着。有意思的是，护只知道她在用香方面下了很大力气，却不知道她从不化妆。
When he was able to see back in the day,women and even girls like Haruka used lipstick and of that sort to attract theattention of men.
在他还看得见的时候，他记得女性甚至是遥这样的年轻女孩子都在涂唇膏用来吸引异性。
Although he'd have no idea why Haruka didit the other way around. On top of that it was dangerous for her to even haveit in her mind to get a boyfriend anytime soon.As a guardian he would have todisapprove of such an act, and now he was glad she did not do that.
"Never mind."
He heard Haruka sigh.
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尽管不知遥她为何从不涂脂抹粉，问题在于，对她来说交男友这种事，哪怕只是个念想都是极其危险的。作为她的护卫，他必然要反对，他很庆幸她目前还没有到让他这么做的地步。
“没事了。”
他听见遥叹了口气。

After the training Mamoru asked her toaccompany him to the bakery and chocolaterie around the corner. Her firstreaction was confusion, but in the end she complied. It wasn't every day thathe would take her out in the open, but she enjoyed every moment when they did.
训练结束后，护让遥跟他一起去街角的面包房和巧克力店。一开始她很疑惑，不过后来还是答应了。毕竟他不是每天都能带她出门的，所以之前每次能出去她都很开心。
Today was different. She wasn't exactlykeen about both Igawa and Sierra subtly letting on something he shouldn't haveknown; it made her regret that she had ever let them in on that extremelyembarrassing part.
但今天不同，她拿不准井川和薛娜到底向护透露了多少她的秘密；这她无比后悔让他们掺和到这个犹如公开处刑的事情里来。
After all, Haruka was most afraid thatMamoru caught onto something. Besides having a thick skull he was alsoextremely observant in a way beyond his disa/b\ility.
毕竟，她最怕护会察觉到什么。即使在某些面反应迟钝，看不见的他依然观察敏锐。
When he stopped her bokuto's swing to thehead and mentioned 'strawberry' as he leaned down a little bit too close to herface it made her insides tingle.
毕竟当把竹刀停在她头上时弯腰对她说出“草莓”时，他离她的脸太近了，近到让她感觉内脏都有些刺痛。
Mamoru quit the training when he noticedshe had turned into a puddle of goo and complained that she could have beenpretty darned good if it hadn't been for her poor concentration every time theyattempted to go for the next level.
当发现遥已经陷入苦战时，护干脆叫停了训练。因为遥每次都在关键时刻精力不集中，致使无法提高进入下一阶段，对此护多有不满。
He commented that it had been easier totrain her when she was a younger teen and wondered out loud what happened toher.
他表示，小时候那会，她的训练明明顺利的多，可现在的她到底是怎么回事？
Haruka quit the training when she stuck outher tongue and said to stop annoying her. It took all of her patience to notanswer to his question with one word.
遥也停了下来，一语不发，用尽耐心没喊出那句让他别再烦自己。

Puberty.
Now he had dragged her to the bakery, nextto the chocolaterie.
A friendly-looking woman in her fiftieswelcomed them.
"Welcome, nice to see you again!"
Again. Haruka wasn't surprised he came heralmost every week. He had brought in all kinds of baked goods into the housesince the day they moved in. It was crazy.
"Is that your girlfriend? She'spretty," she eyed the girl, who flushed a bright red shade.
青春期啊。
此时此刻，他把她拉进了巧克力店旁边面包房。
一个慈眉善目的中年妇人迎了上来。
“欢迎光临，又过来了啊！”
又过来。对于他每周都来这一趟，遥并不意外。自打住到这边起，护几乎把店里的每一样产品都搬回家了，简直蛇精病。
“这是你女朋友吗？生得真漂亮呢。”妇人看见遥的脸颊泛起红晕。
"What do you want?" Mamorubluntly asked Haruka, completely ignoring what the woman said.
"Eh?"
He sighed.
"Cake."
"Well, we have chocolate, banana,caramel, vanilla..." The woman smiled, slightly unsure what to make ofMamoru's reaction.
"Strawberry."
Haruka flinched at his choice and lookedaway.
"Anything else?"
Mamoru was thinking briefly, and thenturned his head to where she was standing.
"Haru....na, get some chocolate nextdoor."
He shoved some money into her hand.
“你想要哪个？”护直截了当的问遥，无视了妇人的话语。
“诶？”
护叹了口气。
“来块蛋糕。”
“嗯，我们现在有巧克力、香蕉、焦糖、还有香草口味的……”妇人微笑道，观察着护的反应。
“来个草莓的。”
听见他的话，遥畏缩了一下，赶紧把目光移开。
“还有别的需要的吗？”
护短暂的想了一下，把头转向她。
“喏……去隔壁买点巧克力来。”
他塞了几张钞票在她手里。
"Sure," she said and fled out ofthe bakery and then into the chocolaterie, thinking it was extremelyembarrassing. She ordered chocolate, making sure she didn't get anything thatcontained strawberries or those cute heart-shaped ones. In a different timelineshe'd definitely ordered that, but with the way Mamoru was it couldn't be that.
“好。”尴尬至极的遥逃命一样冲出面包房进了巧克力店。她小心翼翼的避开了一切有草莓成分的和那些小心心形状的巧克力，换做平时这都是绝对要买的款，但此时此刻绝对不行。
When she left the store, she saw Mamorusitting at a table in front of the bakery. The same woman approached him andserved him two dishes.
"Well, what are you waiting for?"
A wordless Haruka simply stared at thewaffles when she sat down in the chair next to him. Haruka couldn't believe heordered waffles topped with strawberries, whipped cream and chocolate paste.
走出巧克力店，她看见护正坐在面包房外的桌子旁，刚才的那位中年妇人端上了两只碟子。
“在那愣着干什么？”
遥坐了下来，沉默不语的盯着面前的华夫饼。
遥不敢相信他居然点了带草莓的华夫饼，上面还淋着奶油跟巧克力酱。
"What did you order?" Mamoruasked as he picked into a strawberry with a small fork.
"Truffles, pralines and blackchocolate," she scowled.
Mamoru promptly dropped his fork with thestrawberry still attached to it.
"Are you kidding me?"
"No."
He picked up the fork and proceeded to eat,but stopped when she didn't do the same.
"Eat up."
“你买的哪种巧克力？”护叉起一颗草莓问道。
“松露、杏仁巧克力还有黑巧。”她面色阴沉的回答。
护把送到嘴边的草莓倏地放下。
“你在逗我么？”
“才没有。”
他又拿起叉子准备吃，却发现遥没有动的意思。
“那就把华夫饼吃掉。”
"I'm not a dog."
"A very stubborn dog."
"Shut up."
She decided to eat that damn thing.
"Mamoru, about last week'sflavor…" She asked halfway the waffle.
"Cinnamon."
"Right," Haruka was rememberinglast week's perfume and cut a strawberry diligently into pieces to his dismay,"Is it just me, or are you trying to cheer me up?"
"What if I am?"
“我又不是条狗。”
“分明是条顽固的狗。”
“啰嗦！”
她决定开动。
“护，上周的华夫饼味道是……”吃到一半，她问道。
“肉桂的。”
“是啊”，遥想起了上周的香水事件，报复性的把草莓当着护的面切成了小块。
“是我想多了，还是你确实想哄我开心？”
“如果是我想这样的话怎样呢？”
"No way…"
Mamoru pieced his divided waffle backtogether.
"I can't think of any reason why youdo well working and training with the likes of Igawa, Juliett and so on… andfail miserably with someone like me. If you had been keeping up like when westarted three years ago you would have-"
"I know, I know! It's my fault, I'msorry. Please don't worry about that!" She apologized.
"Then what am I supposed to do? Sitback and do nothing? I'm not stupid," he retorted.
“才不要……”
护把切成块的华夫饼又拼到了一起。
我不明白，你跟井川、朱丽叶他们学习时明明进步得很快，跟我一起时却毫无进展。要是你能像三年前那样的话——
“我知道！是我的错，抱歉！请别担心了！”遥道歉。
“那你要我怎样呢？袖手旁观吗？别把我当傻子好吗？”他反诘道。
"…"
"Be honest. This is just my gutstelling me… but is this about what the others have been going on about earlier?Is that why you're uncomfortable around me?"
"I don't feel uncomfortable aroundyou."
"Stop lying Haruka. In combat trainingyou have Juliett and Sierra, and Igawa's a technician, which leaves onlyme."
“……”
“我的直觉告诉我，你的这种行为和之前井川他们有关，那次之后，待在我身边，让你觉得不舒服了是吗？”
“我没有不舒服。”
“遥，少偏人。跟着朱丽叶和薛娜进行格斗训练也好，跟着井川做技术学习也罢，你都很乖，可到了我这你就不是这样了。”
She sighed and smiled a little.
"It's really okay. I wasn't aware thiswas bothering you so much, I'll do my best next time."
Mamoru adjusted his shades up his nose, notcompletely convinced.
"If it's not Mamoru, then Iwouldn't," she grinned.
"What?"
"Just kidding!"
"In that case… let's finish this andgo home," he decided, even though he didn't know what she was trying toimply. He'd found out sooner or later anyway.
Haruka nodded and took a bite from herstrawberry.
The end.
她叹口气，微微笑了一下。
“其实没什么的，我不知道这事让你这么困扰，下次我会尽全力的。”
护推了推鼻梁上的眼镜，还有些怀疑。
“如果不是护，我才不会这么做呢。”她咧嘴一笑。
“什么？！”
“开玩笑啦！”
“既然如此，咱们吃完了就回家吧。”他打定主意，此刻就算不知道她在暗示些什么也无所谓，反正自己早晚都会明白过来的。
遥点点头，在她的草莓上咬了一口。
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超超超感动，完结这么久还有粮吃嘤嘤嘤，感谢翻译！！！这篇真的真的太可爱了