DEVIL MAY CRY 5 | Story Mode Pt.9: Mission 15: “Diverging Point: Nero”! (PS4 Pro HD, Gameplay Only)

Previously, on DEVIL MAY CRY...
Dante returned, now in his REAL ULTIMATE POWER FINAL FORM, to the big gooey demon “tree” thing where Nero was getting his dumb face stomped by Urizen the Demon King (again), and rescued him (again), and faced off in an EPIC BATTLE against Urizen the Demon King (again)!

But this time, with the power of his REAL ULTIMATE POWER, Dante prevailed over the Demon King!

OR DID HE?

Just as victory seemed assured, everything started exploding and ish got crazy and Urizen the Demon King was like “Mwahahahahaaaa foolishness, Dante! Foolishness! This was all part of my plan or something and it doesn’t really even matter because now the big gooey demon ‘tree’ is gonna explode or something I don’t know, whatever- kbye.”

So he left.

Rude.

And Dante and Nero and V were like “Welp, can’t have that... let’s do this!”

Thus, the warriors departed further into the deepest depths of the big gooey demon tree to the root (get it? ‘Root’? Because... tree..)- to the ultimate ROOT of the evil, where waits Urizen the Demon King, on the verge of attaining his own REAL ULTIMATE POWER! Oh snap...

So the Three Warriors started their epic journey, but then whoaaaaaa stuff started exploding again for some reason, separating them! Now, they must each individually attempt to make their way to the very core/root/heart/whatever of the gooey demon tree and confront Urizen the Demon King (even though Dante is the only one who even remotely stands a chance against him, Nero is still a braindead moron and probably thinks he can still win even though he got obliterated like three times in a row, and V is... uh... V... who knows wtf that kid's up to?)

You might call it a... "DIVERGING POINT". The developers did. Because that's what it is.

+ Which brings us to...

NERO...

Whilst V was stumbling around turning into powder and doing a weird acid trip boss gauntlet filler mission- before finding... MALPHAS, the.... 3-headed mutant demon lady who is kinda like a centaur except her lower body is... a giant featherless ostrich monster... because apparently that's a thing. I did not know that. But now we know- it is. And that's Malphas- she(?) they(?) it(??)- that freaking thing is bad news. And V is already dying of psoriasis, so he decided he should definitely avoid a confrontation.

And proceeded to immediately get drawn into a confrontation.

Good grief, V, you're starting to act like Nero...

And speaking of NERO- just as Malphas the freaky 3 headed demon lady chicken ostrich monster began to approach V and presumably do unpleasant things to him, she was understandably distracted because some random dude shot her in the back of the head.

Is it possible that Nero is finally going to do something USEFUL for ONCE in his life and rescue V?!

Let's rewind to about 25 minutes before this shocking development, and then we shall see...