Episode 885 got me thinking. In Mary Geoise, a lone figure known as Im carrying Luffy’s new wanted poster opens the door to a freezing vault.
![](http://www.opfanpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/azzzzz-633x1024.png)
Stepping inside, the vault is revealed to contain a single object: a massive straw hat the size of the figure.
This huge frozen place looks like a tomb.
![](http://www.opfanpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/fv-1024x542.png)
Given that devil fruits always respawn after the death of a person, could you keep a devil fruit locked away if you freeze the owner alive? Of course just locking the fruit away would be a lot easier, but we don’t know the rules of devil fruits’ respawning yet (According to Oda, a “certain professor” will explain the complex mechanisms behind all of the Devil Fruits in the series in the future).
![](http://www.opfanpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Devil_Fruit_Reincarnation.png)
So keeping the owner frozen somwhere no one could find them seems like a practical way to lock their devil fruits away. What do you think?
*Theory by De_Narm