#too clean

Yes I know he immediately concedes that he was no different than the boy and wishes he could have said the things that the boy did but it's the first step in his character arc into being a better person. Not a good person mind you, just better.

V's entire point is to force Vergil to confront his issues and grow from them. But before he's forced to live as V and come face to face with his inadequacies and flaws, this is genuinely what Vergil believed. The only reason he's even helping the kid is because he's trying to emulate Dante since Dante always beat him and he went "Dante protects humans. Dante always wins. Protecting humans equals beating Dante?"