"Really? I wonder what caused that to happen." His idle curiosity about that fairly irrelevant detail is set aside when Lee mentions the guide. Chouji falls silent as he searches for it in his own journal, meeting with success after a couple minutes. "Ah, thank you, Lee! You've helped a lot with explaining things."

"I'll ask Shikamaru to show me how," Chouji mutters, more to himself than Lee, before raising his voice back to its usual level. "I'll be careful not to share sensitive information that might help our captors or harm any of us," Chouji promises. A nod at the information about the wings, and Chouji sounds genuinely pleased when he says, "That's good."