[The problem is, for him, it's exactly about going back and preventing someone from dying. Zelos died -- that was the choice, and it's the only one he knows. He doesn't see any other options.

There's a flare of anger on his part, but her description of Zelos in her timeline cracks open grief alongside it, and both stick painfully in his throat.]

I wanted to save him! I wanted to-- and I couldn't. [And that's what tears him up inside, knowing why Zelos did what he did and realizing how blind he'd been to it all along.] But that doesn't mean going back is the answer.

If I do that-- [Something in his expression breaks. This is what he's been struggling with for the past month, said out loud.] What about Botta, what about Marble, what about my mom? We can't mess with the past that way.