Arifureta - Chapter 40

"Date" (デート) is the 40th chapter of Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest Manga adaptation. It was released on April 10, 2020 on "Overlap:Comic Gardo" Online Publication.

Characters in Order of Appearance
Characters in italics debuted here.
 * Hajime Nagumo
 * Shea Haulia
 * Lehman
 * Myu
 * Hansen (flashback)

Locations

 * Fuhren
 * Meerstadt Aquarium

Monsters

 * Fishman

Differences from Light Novel

 * In the Light Novel, Shea wears a white dress during her date with Hajime.
 * In the Light Novel, Lehman apologizes to Shea for scaring her during their first encounter, as well as advising her to always stay by Hagime's side, to which Shea promises to and thanks Lehman for inadvertently leading her to have her first kiss with Hajime.
 * In the Light Novel, Hajime uses his "Cross Bit" Artifact to rescue Lehman after he and Shea leave the aquarium.
 * Hajime does not feed Shea the ice cream-like desert in the Light Novel.
 * In the Light Novel, the bathtub that Myu uses to clean herself is transmuted by Hajime with the stone pathway from the surface.
 * In the Light Novel, Hajime and Myu introduce themselves to each other before Myu gets cleaned up.
 * In the Light Novel, Myu escapes her captors by going through an open manhole in her cell before she is to be auctioned.