[ He wants to keep her alive... After everything that happened in her life, this is actually the first time she's been told that. Sure, she's been told to just go ahead and die so many times - both her aunts told her it, the witches told her it, her classmates told her it.. basically everywhere she went she only came across people wishing she was just dead. But now there's finally the first time she hears the opposite, someone just wishing she'd stay alive..

It's since they both know what it's like to lose everything and be completely cast out by the world, huh? And even if that isn't true, then she still knows it's true that she really just wants to stay with him, that she wants their days in this place to continue..

But the more she thinks about her words, the more easily she suddenly blurts it out, their backs still to each other-- ]

Moron, it's since all this time you've already been the person I wanted to see alive the most, so I didn't want you to go off on your own and maybe never come back..!