Devil May Cry 5

Plot

After the incident of Fortuna, the former knight now hunter Nero starts to build a branch for Devil May Cry, with his new partner & gunsmith Nico Goldstein, daughter of Agnus. Just then, a hooded man barges in and rips the Devil Bringer off of Nero in his own home, leaving him to die bleeding with Yamato in the hooded man's hands.

Regaining consciousness, Nero climbs to the top of the tree, alongside the mysterious V who is helping him, just to see Dante, Trish and Lady fighting the new demon king, Urizen. The trio get easily defeated by the immense power of the king, and Nero is forced to escape the scene by Dante with the help of V.

It is later revealed that V was the one who hired Dante and his friends to take down Urizen, however, after they are defeated, V decides to rely on Nero's help  with his newly equipped Devil Breakers as a replacement for his lost arm. During the mission, overhearing information from demons, such as Malphas, in their plan to destroy the Devil Sword Sparda, V and his Familiars seek it out before them. Once acquired, V finds Dante in what seems like a comatose state. As he's about to stab Dante, he awakens.

Dante then sets off to find & rescue Nero from being killed by Urizen, along with the Qliphoth, the name of the giant demon tree. Its size has increased significantly by this point, and all the blood that's been consumed by it has spawned a fruit which imbues a demon with divine power. Trish states that even Mundus needed it to become the king of the Underworld.

When he arrives at one of the lower levels of the tree, he reunites with Lady, Trish, Nico, and then V and Nero also make an appearance. It is at this point that Nico reveals to Dante that she is actually the granddaughter of Nell Goldstein, the creator of the Ebony & Ivory. Nero tries to asks Dante to come along after Urizen, without being proven "deadweight" after being remarked that, despite now having his arm replaced.

Dante, Nero and V now split up and make their separate ways onto the demon tree. Dante arrives at the inner most chamber first, while Nero helps V, who is slowly getting weaker due to the limits of his body lacking demonic power. At this point, V confesses to Nero, the same yet point-of-view truth he shared with Trish, that the name "Urizen" doesn't exist but Dante's twin brother, Vergil, who had all along separated his entire being and everything for power.

While this is happening, Dante is fighting Urizen at an illusion area which looks to be where the two brothers used to live when they were children. Despite Dante trying to reason with Urizen (Vergil), noting their mother's sacrifice to save them, Urizen ignores him and feasts upon the fruit, gaining even more power. However, Dante is able to defeat him even after having consumed the fruit. During this weak state, V and Nero arrive at the scene. When V sees Urizen laying on the ground, on his last breath, he comes up to him and stabs his chest, which makes V reunite with his own demonic self... as it turns out to Dante's unexpected surprise, V was Vergil's "human side" all along, and with this, Vergil comes back to life and appears in front of Dante and Nero reborn

When this happens, the illusion at the Qliphoth fades away, and Vergil opens up a portal to the apex of the tree and leaves the demon hunters after stating that Dante needs to rest so they can fight again, but not before thanking Nero as he leaves. Dante, making his way to the top of the tree, asks Nero to leave as this isn't his business. Nero shuts down the request and demands to go after Vergil for manipulating him as V since the day he ripped off his arm to reclaim Yamato. However, Dante straight up confesses to Nero that he is Vergil's son. Nero, confused at what he had just heard, could not believe it. But Dante assured him that he knew the day he first saw and met for the first time & when he witnessed Yamato react to him. That's how he was sure of Nero's identity and relation and that he couldn't let Nero kill his own father.

While making his way to the top of the Qliphoth, Dante meets V's Familiars one last time, however, they are hostile against him for personal reasons, but are eventually killed to "end Vergil's suffering". Finally arriving at the top, Vergil is seen simply sitting down on a small root. The brothers fight yet again.

Nero, who was also making his way up the Qliphoth, finds a broken phone on the way up. He calls Kyrie in search for consolation, and it is granted. Kyrie reassures Nero about his decisions, and her response gives him the confidence he needed to face his family heritage & legacy. While he was reaching out to the top of the tree, his missing arm blows the Devil Breaker off of him, and a new arm simply grows out of it. This new power awakens Nero's true Devil Trigger, and he arrives at the climax of the brothers' fight, stopping the two at once.

Nero states that neither one of them will die, and that this vendetta will end once and for all. When Dante tries to tell Nero again that their rivalry does not concern him, he gets suckerpunched and is so surprised by Nero's new powers that he sarcastically states that it almost killed him. Nero and Vergil start their own personal fight. In the end, after being bested by Nero, Vergil and Dante make a truce due to the Qliphoth tree, stating that they need to go to the Demon World to kill it once and for all. Nero doesn't accept this because the two would be stuck there forever, but the brothers go anyway. But not before Dante passes the torch to his nephew, who goes back to Kyrie with Nico.

As the two brothers find the main root of the Qliphoth within hell, they start cuttin it down. After it's been done, they start fighting again, this time keep track of their scores and real brotherly time together. However, some demons arrive and intrude their little "game", as the brothers fight together again.