Onus(DMC)

i'll try to make it special

Anyone normal would have told the kid the truth when they allowed him to keep the sword of his father. They would have told him the significance of the blade. They would have hugged the boy, cause he was a gift and he was all the family they had left. They wouldn’t have left with two years of radio silence.

But what if he didn't?

We don't know what happened with Vergil between his "death" and the beginning of dmc5. Where he was, what he did. And then we see him fractured and dying, struggling, in pain. His only objective is to reach and get the Yamato.

The one thing he has left of his father.

And he goes back to his childhood home. The last place he had a family. His mother, his brother. And trusts his sword in himself.

Sure, it isn't supported by canon. But to me those aren't the actions of a man plotting to conquer the world. Given his state, how badly Vergil was injured physically and probably mentally too from the pain he was in, what if he just wanted to die on his terms? In the last place he has memories of having a family, of being loved and protected, which is something he admits through V was what he wanted.

He made it back home.