Kairoseki Ingestion?

[❰ Misha ❱]

A silly concept, but the idea of it intrigues me.

"You are what you eat."

What do you guys think? The idea that if somone ate Kairoseki stone, than their body takes on the properties of it and can affect Devil Fruit users the same way as Kairoseki stone, as long as they continue to eat Kairoseki.

This isn't intended to be a serious discussion, but what do you guys think? I'd just like to post this to unload it off my mind.

[Farris (Kuro)]

I dunno if it'd work that way. For all we know it might be toxic to ingest it.

[paradoxpanda]

Let us establish a few premises.

• 1. Kurosaki seems to be some kind of ore, in that it is called sea stone but seems to be capable of being refined into a metal.
  
  
• 2. It radiates energy of a specific frequency, which is of an opposing frequency to devil fruit users.
  
  
• 3. It is very hard.
  
  
• 4. The radiation from sea stone can be blocked by thick clothing, as shown with Smoker.
  
  
  4a. From this we can determin that Sea stone's radiation is on the same order of energy as alpha radiation, and thus, not harmful to humans, except over very very long periods of exposure.
  
  
  
  

Based on this, I prepose that if you we're to injest it, the following would take place.

First, the hardness of the Material would make it unlikely to be disolved by stomach acids, unless the conditions within the stomach somehow act as a catalyst to enact a chemical reaction.

If a reaction does not occure, than it is likely the Subject would then pass the stone at some point, having suffered minimal injury as a result.

If a reaction does take place, assuming that it is mild enough as to not kill the individual, than it is not entirly impossible that some of the stone could accumulate within the body, in a manner similar to lead or mercury.

Given its low energy release, the persons's skin would almost certainly be enough to shield any devil fruit users, even in direct contact, from being affected. This is of couse assuming that the reaction did not change the properties of the stone and render it inert.

Lastly, the subject dies many years later as a result of the damage to the soft tissue of their digestive system due to long term radiation exposure. It is both very painful and slow.

[❰ Misha ❱]

I'm thinking along the same lines, it would be just as you proposed.

You're right, it would probably be poisonous due to the facts that you've pointed out. Either entirely lethal or projecting a small effect, but these are just my musings.

This is just an idea that entered my mind after reading "Rappuccini's Daughter". If you've never read the story, I encourage you to do so.

Applying Kairoseki in the same way that poison is applied in Rappuccini's daughter. I'm wondering something around there. If nothing else, its certainly amusing to think of an island where such a practice exists. Where they attempt to "become immune" to the devils that exist in the devils fruits and to somehow become holy.