[What a mess, hmm?

He is gravely injured and puking up light.

He is surrounded by those who have killed him and, for all he can tell, enemies.

Ardyn has betrayed him.

Lahabrea has been untempered. There is no way his Sight could have missed that.

Vergil took away his emotional support Ascian.

Zodiark has been taken over.

And above all else, even Zodiark...

...their star is dying!

So he clings onto Cardinal, wrapping his arms around them and burying his face in their shoulder and openly weeping.]