Arifureta - Chapter 47

"Shirasaki Kaori" (白崎香織) is the 47th chapter of the Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest Manga adaptation. It was released on "Overlap:Comic Gardo" Online Publication on December 4, 2020 on "Point Payment" system, with Free Preview released on January 8, 2021.

Summary
Kouki tells Kaori to get away from Hajime because of how he mercilessly killed Cattleya when she couldn't fight back. Shizuku tells Kouki that Hajime saved them all, but he insists that killing her was the wrong thing to do and that Hajime can't be forgiven for it. Daisuke tries to back Kouki up, but Shizuku is left in disbelief from Kouki's claim. Yue simply calls them hopeless and asks Hajime if they can go now which he says they can. She also tells Kaori to get away from Hajime, but for an entirely different reason.

Kouki speaks up and says he won't accept him or his allies as friends unless they talk out what just happened, but an annoyed Hajime tells Kouki that he's under no obligation to listen to or answer his questions. But since he's so persistent, he wants to tell him exactly why he is in the wrong. Kouki says that what he said was normal, but Hajime sees through him; he's not upset that Hajime killed her, he hates that he saw death. Even though she did horrible things to him and the others, he can't direct his anger at the act of killing itself, so he's taking it out on Hajime for making him see something he didn't want to see.

Kouki vehemently denies this but Hajime tells him he doesn't see his own flaws, even going as far as to call him a joke for changing his narratives on a whim. Kouki still insists that the problem is that Hajime killed a defenseless enemy, but Hajime tells him that people annihilate their enemies. Kouki still calls it murder so Hajime decides to forget talking to him. He tells him that he will stick to his values, and if it bothers Kouki to the point that he would stand in his way, then he won't hesitate to shoot him, even if they were classmates. He finishes saying that he isn't the party's ally, he just owed Kaori, which is why he came.

When Kouki tries to counter, Meld tells him to stop, saying that they have no right to call him out when he saved them. He asks Hajime to stand down as well and that he will take full responsibility for what has occurred, and Hajime accepts, with him and his girls leaving. When they walk away, Meld apologizes to Kouki for not training him to take his enemy's lives. Kouki is left incredulous that even Meld would talk about killing their enemies as he continues, saying that he wanted to use some bandits as a test, but ultimately came to hesitate after spending so much time together, which he feels is the real reason they almost all died against Cattleya. As for Kaori, she is left conflicted after witnessing how ready Hajime was to killing Kouki and if he's a different person now. Yue even tells her to forget about him if she feels that confused.

Hajime's party and the Hero Party make their way back up to the surface, where Myu hugs Hajime for his return. Hajime asks Tio if anything problematic occurred while he was away, and she says that some ruffians tried to kidnap Myu, only to be blown away by her. Said ruffians arrive on the scene and demands Hajime hand over his girls as an "apology", but he easily slaughters all of them. Shea and Tio comment on how unusually ferocious he was, which Yue says was because of how much he cares for all of them.

As Kaori watches the girls fawn over Hajime, Kaori realizes that despite Hajime's new outlook, he hasn't forgotten kindness if he's surrounded by people who are truly happy to be around him. More obviously, he did come to the Labyrinth to put her at ease and saved everyone. With that Kaori makes a decision. She approaches Hajime and tells him that she understands why he has changed so much; she says she won't pretend to understand what Hajime endured in the Labyrinth, but the only way he could survive was to be ruthless. She does say, however, that she believes that the part of him that cares to protect someone still exists, and if there are things she doesn't know, she wants to learn them.

With Shizuku's encouragement, Kaori tells Hajime that she will be joining him from here on out. Yue tells her that she has no right, but Kaori refutes that notion. She then tells Hajime that she is in love with him, since the very first day she met him.

Characters in Order of Appearance

 * Hajime Nagumo
 * Kaori Shirasaki
 * Kouki Amanogawa
 * Cattleya (corpse)
 * Shizuku Yaegashi
 * Daisuke Hiyama
 * Kousuke Endou
 * Ryutarou Sakagami
 * Suzu Taniguchi
 * Eri Nakamura
 * Yue
 * Shea Haulia
 * Meld Loggins
 * Myu
 * Tio Klarus

Monsters

 * Ahatod (flashback)

Locations

 * Horaud
 * Great Orcus Labyrinth

Differences from Light Novel

 * In the Light Novel, Kaori becomes hysterical after hearing Myu call Hajime "Papa", and grabs him by the collar while demanding an explanation from him, before Shizuku pries her away.