Yeah. [Because this time, Urizen killed him. And still, no matter how he dies, in his last moments Credo meets Nero's gaze with a look of distress and agony. It's a look he can interpret so many ways, but chief among them is "why didn't you save me?"

He subtly shifts again, pressing up against the cool cloth, then back against Vergil's smoothing touch.

It occurs to him vaguely that he's not really talked about Credo to Vergil. Mostly because he can't. He exists in Nero's heart and memory like a wound that never really healed, that still stings and even bleeds all these years later.]

He was Kyrie's older brother. Captain of the Holy Knights in Fortuna. He taught me... everything. He was my mentor when I was with them.