Arifureta - Episode 09

*This article is about **Anime episode**. You may be looking for **the artifact made by Oscar Orcus with the same name**.*

## Episode 09

### Air Date (EN)

**Subbed**: September 9, 2019
**Dubbed**: September 23, 2019

### Adapted From

**Light Novel**: Volume 3
**Manga**: Ch030, Ch031 & Ch032

## Staff

### Scriptwriter

Katsuichi Satō
Kinji Yoshimoto

### Animation dir.

Maiko Okada
Seiki Tanaka
Toshie Kawamura
Sansai Onoki
Daisono Sonoda
Yukichi Liang
Satoshi Shirakawa

**"Dragon Slayer"** (黒竜を穿つ者, *Kokuryū o Ugatsumono*?) is the 9th episode for Season One of the ***Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest*** Anime adaptation. It aired in Japan on September 9, 2019.

## Synopsis

Hajime's quest leads him and his classmates into the mountains, where they come across their quarry--and the huge black dragon attacking him!

## Summary

Once in the mountains Hajime uses transmuted drones connected to his jewel eye to search for the adventurers. They find the nobles son, Will, the only survivor, who reveals they were attacked by an army of monsters and a black dragon. While returning they are attacked by the dragon.

Hajime succeeds in knocking it from the sky and attempts to pierce its armour with his weapon, the Pile Bunker, which can drive Azanthium stakes through any material. The dragon almost escapes until Shea knocks it out with Drucken. Deciding to forgo piercing the armour, Hajime sadistically shoves the stake into its only unarmoured area; the anus.

However, the pain causes the dragon to reveal she is a Female Dragonborn, capable of taking a human form. She begs him to remove the stake in exchange for everything she knows. She admits she was magically forced by someone to attack Will and his friends and as atonement, offers to help them stop that person. Hajime decides to kill her anyway, but Yue convinces him to spare her. He removes the stake and the dragon transforms into a young woman named Tio, a shameless masochist who admits she enjoyed the stake, just a little. Now their ally Tio reveals the person, whoever he is, has an army of 60,000 monsters and is planning to attack the farming village.

## Characters in Order of Appearance

Characters in *italics* debuted here.

* Nana Miyazaki
* Yuka Sonobe
* Atsushi Tamai
* Taeko Sugawara
* Shea Haulia
* Hajime Nagumo
* Aiko Hatayama
* Yue
* Will Cudeta
* *Tio Klarus*

## Differences from Light Novel

* The Anime omits Hajime finding a locket with a woman's picture in that he believes to have belonged to one of the deceased adventurers, which is later revealed to belong to Will, and the woman is his mother.
* Will receiving medical treatment after he is rescued does not occur in the Light Novel.
* In the Light Novel, Tio attacks everyone in her dragon form immediately after they find Will. In the Anime, Tio attacks them after they leave the waterfall and start heading back to Ur.
* In the Light Novel, after Hajime brings out his shield to block Tio's first flaming breath attack, Aiko and Yuka brace Hajime from behind, followed by Atsushi, Taeko, Nana, and Will soon after. In the Anime, it is just Yuka and Atsushi that support Hajime.
* In the Light Novel, Atsushi's weapons are a pair of scimitars. In the Anime, it is a shotel and a metal shield.
* In the Light Novel, it is revealed that Hajime learned the expression "*Kicking a dragon in the arse*" from a traveling merchant named More Nos.
* The Anime omits Tio almost saying Yue's original name after discovering that she is the last surviving vampire, but Yue stops her and insists that she is to be known by her current name, due to it is the one that Hajime gave her.

## External Links

* Arifureta Official Site - "Episode 09" *"Summary"* (*JP*)
* Funimation Sub & Dub - "Episode 09" (available only in *US, CA, UK, IE, AU, NZ*)