The Artist Returns

The artist returns as the reanimated Deidara rejoins the war, Kabuto's Edo Tensei dragging the dead Akatsuki back to the battlefield. The episode advances the war's opening as the enemy's reanimated forces — legends and villains pulled from death — begin to deploy against the alliance. Deidara's explosive art returns to threaten the living. It's the canon arc's escalation, the Edo Tensei's horror taking shape: the alliance must fight not only Zetsu legions but its own honored and hated dead, resurrected and enslaved to Kabuto's will.