Petrification Weapon

Petrification Weapon
Item Information
Type	Unknown
Effects	Limited-scale petrification event
User	Petrification Kingdom Kirisame Ibara
First Appearance
Manga Debut	Chapter 106 Chapter 121 (Full Appearance)
Anime Debut	Not Yet

Petrification Weapon is the unofficial name given to the weapon used by Kirisame and Ibara.

In some chapters of the manga, the Petrification Weapon, is called Medusa (after the gorgon from Greek mythology).

At an unknown point in time, the device came to be on Treasure Island and abused as a punishment-dealing tool.

Description

The Petrification Weapon is used by Kirisame where it is thrown, it is attached to a piece of rope, whereupon after some distance, it activates. The rope presumably provides ease of recovery, while the throwing action allows the petrification effect not to consume the thrower.

When thrown into the air it creates a limited-scale petrification event that turns everyone within its radius into petrified statues. These statues can be revived using the revival solution that Senku made.

The radius and activation time of the weapon can be altered by verbal command, as demonstrated by Ibara to silence Kirisame after the latter learned of his betrayal and later upon turning Yo to stone to retrieve the device from him.

At present, the largest known radius of the device seems to be the entire diameter of the Earth, around 12,800 kilometers, although if the weapon is actually capable of achieving such a range in unknown.

It appears to take the form of a Trefoil Knot and appears electronic in nature, it is currently unknown to where it originates. It is told from Matsukaze that multiple copies of the device fell from space onto Treasure island.

History

Past

Petrification Weapon being used.

Year 5736: The Petrification Weapon is used by Kirisame and Mozu against Amaryllis and her four friends to prevent them from fleeing the Island.

Trivia

• Curiously, Senku did not attempt to use the verbal timer function of the device to trick Ibara into a trap (his voice could still reach the device in the petrified man's stomach); the wicked old man would unknowingly be carrying a time bomb and would be petrified before he could do anything to save himself.
• It cannot be verbally activated over radio/phone.
• In chapter 138, Whyman attempts (meaning it failed) setting the device off at a radius of 12,800,000 meters or 12,800 kilometers. (Which Senku points out covers the entirety of Earth.)