The Absolute Rule of the Fairy Forest

My name is Gu Chen, a hero who was dragged here against my will. In front of me stands Helan Zhuo, a barbarian war goddess with blonde hair and blue eyes, half a head taller than I am—my inescapable “guardian.” She’s noisy as hell and her cooking is like poison, but she’s also the only one who would pull me out of a pile of corpses when I was playing dead. Right now, we’re standing outside the Fairy Forest. I have to enter alone to break the seal on that twin blade made from the bones of a demon dragon, while she’s blocked outside by the fairies’ ancient rules, so frantic she’s nearly swinging her battle axe at the barrier.