Arifureta - Chapter 40

"Date" (デート) is the fortieth chapter of Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest (ありふれた職業で世界最強) Manga adaptation. It was released on April 10, 2020 on "Overlap:Comic Gardo" Online Publication.

Characters
Characters in italics debuted here.
 * Hajime Nagumo
 * Shea Haulia
 * Riiman
 * Myu
 * Hansen (flashback)

Locations

 * Fuhren
 * Meerstadt Aquarium

Types of Monsters

 * Fishman

Differences

 * In the LN and WN, Shea wears a white dress during her date with Hajime.
 * In the LN and WN, Riiman 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 Riiman for inadvertently leading her to have her first kiss with Hajime.
 * In the LN and WN, Hajime uses his "Cross Bit" Artifact to rescue Riiman after he and Shea leave the aquarium.
 * Hajime does not feed Shea the ice cream-like desert in the LN and WN.
 * In the LN and WN, the bathtub that Myu uses to clean herself is transmuted by Hajime with the stone pathway from the surface.
 * In the LN and WN, Hajime and Myu introduce themselves to each other before Myu gets cleaned up.
 * In the LN and WN, Myu escapes her captors by going through an open manhole in her cell before she is to be auctioned.