I Can See the Future, So I’ll Show You How to Catch People from Another World

Three swings of a baton shattered the otherworldly soul. “Chief, I’m from Earth!” My name is Walter. I used to be from Earth, and now I’m a police inspector in Necton, a city on Earth in a parallel universe. Seems like nothing much has changed. I’m still an Earthling. Necton is a strange place, where two worlds meet and technology and magic exist side by side. My daily work includes, but isn’t limited to, chasing orc thieves across a platform that leaks, putting up with my partner’s nagging, and praying that the “door” overhead doesn’t glitch out and turn the whole city into a disco. My life’s ambition is to coast until retirement. Then I smashed an overloaded pipe with an outrageously expensive police baton, saved my old partner, and unlocked a superpower: precognition. My superior’s “reward” was assigning me a new partner: Lian Croft, an elf with top-notch skills and looks to match. Too bad she has dead-fish eyes and a mouth that never stops, and talks like a clinical report, though she does slip in the occasional deadpan joke. She insists on calling me “Mr. Goblin.” She even stubbornly coined the term “handsome big-bro Goblin.” Do I still need to prove I’m a pure-blooded human? Now we’re investigating a chuuni organization called “Flame of World Cleansing.” They seem to think staging a world-spanning catastrophe would be fun. It’s way more exciting than flying a plane into two buildings. But all I want to say is: Give me a break. I just want to quietly earn my few hundred bucks in dead wages...