This is an apology for the double posting, but no one has commented about the current episodes.
So, this is part two of Canyon Land's mini-arc.
The twist that presents this episode is that the details of Kiriha's past were not fully revealed in episode 42.
By the way, this is another episode that adds to the list of most memorable and remarkable episodes in this show with the great story drama, the adrenaline action, and the superb animation design.
What I feel that makes this digimon show very balanced is the gravitas that Kiriha's anti-thesis of his character serves in contrasts to Taiki's personality. It makes for their respective world views of separate black and white making good combination without mixing.
As well it was another episode that paid homages to memorable instances of Digimon Adventure, Digimon 02, and Digimon Tamers.
The previous Death Generals were the stereotypical tyrant characters, although Olegmon itself possessed redeeming qualities and understood its own perspective about friendship very well. Nevertheless, Gravimon became to me the most despicable, bastard, and least forgiveable to me of the Death Generals for what he did to Deckerdramon.
Spoiler:
If I cannot recall from other Digimon series, this is a first in the entire franchise that the other children characters dive and witness the childhood memories of another friend of theirs.
This case was Taiki, Nene, and Shoutmon diving inside Kirihas' memories via Deckerdramon.
Kiriha only witnessed as a child his father's cruelty from one point of view, but the truth itself was and always is complex and layered. That was only a side of his fahter he witnessed, but his father chose not to further compromise his little child personality by showing him kindness.
A very bitter but thoughtful lesson about life is that a very loving parent sometimes must act rough and severe towards his or her own children to teach them that life and the world are never black-and-white but a cold, somber gray.
And to survive that gray world, the children must learn how to toughen themselves in mind and character.
However, in no way it meant that his father truly neglect him. He was deeply concerned about his own son, that hurt him without never reaching the breaking point.
The day of the undisclosed accident Kiriha lost his parents, family, and thought he lost himself as well, but at the time he did not realize that his father planted a seed of love within him, and that was the thing that Deckerdramon showed him for Kiriha to understand; he needed not an outside power, because he had his own all along, and what he really needed to make it bloom was the company of truly caring friends.