"It's pretty unusual even in my world. I've never seen anyone but an Akimichi towering over a battlefield. Unless you count summons, which aren't human." Chouji does less towering than his father does, shifting between sizes more frequently. He's been borrowing more and more of Chouza's fighting style since arriving in Luceti and becoming more dependent on weapons to supplement jutsu, though.

"That's where most of it goes, yes." Some of it stays around to be broken down later, as rarely as possible. The last resort technique of the clan, the one that Chouji managed without organ-damaging pills, to everyone's amazement, would be impossible without some spare body weight.

"I don't think I realized how much I missed being able to use chakra until just now." It wasn't all that long in actual time, but it felt like an entire other lifetime without it. "I couldn't miss it then, I guess, because I didn't remember. Is," he pauses to remember which word Luke used, "the Force like that for you?"