Quote Originally Posted by Silverionmox View Post
V lost Haerta first after dealing with the Black Mamma Dragon, the two other souls later when being sledgehammered by Xykon. The call options of the fiends on V's soul correspond with the time he used their souls.
Oh, I understand that. The options noted that each one of the IFCC called up _A_ soul for the splice, and V would owe the IFCC a like amount of time for the duration of each individual splice.

Nero called up Haerta; Haerta escaped post-Familicide, so V owes Nero the three minutes six seconds of that bind. Lee and Cedric called up Ganonron and Jepthon, who both escaped at the same time. My question was that when Lee said "twenty minutes, 35 seconds for him (Cedric) and me" was whether this meant twenty minutes total (i.e., V held each of them for ten minutes seventeen seconds), or twenty minutes plus each. I suspect it was the latter.