You think my life is something precious to me?

[ It's true that he doesn't want to die, most people don't, but it's his friends that are the most important thing to him. ]

Can we at least, I dunno... keep in touch like this? I'd feel a lot better knowing you're still... w-well, I don't even know... [ Doesn't know if she's okay, that is. She's a bit like him sometimes, unwilling to burden others, so he can't entirely hold it against Shiho when she says she's fine. ]