He gave up on reversing his regret; he didn't want anything to change in his world, and left everything ahead of his people there to Jomy. In the end, he wanted to walk forward to the future, instead.

[ And some future that turned out to be, he almost wants to add. He didn't even get to really enjoy that feeling of no longer hurting, no longer feeling feeble and simply waiting for the inevitable. He'd given up so much and had been so careful not to burden either one of them for that sake. And... ]

And not to mention ... if there some possibility to, I told him he could come with me when we were finished here.