Chouji considers the information, then asking, "Enclosure. How big is it? There's a forest and a village, obviously..." He assumes that if anything could be done about their captors or a way home, someone would already have figured it out. Especially given that Shikamaru is here. Right now Chouji is still just trying to find out as much as he can.

"It seems more versatile than anything we have at home," he says of the journals, before his eyes narrow at one of Lee's comments. "What do you mean, sustain life?"