[Is having a room that you periodically go into to re-live your worst memories not a common coping mechanism?

Huh. Strange.

He probably doesn't have his staff of Zodiark, so he can easily keep track and cradle Vergil in one arm until they are all very much not moving and the only color of Vergil's soul he can see is in the little boy.

Well, unless the puddle does, but that's a different problem.]