User blog comment:ChishioKunrin/RWBY 3 Livestream points/@comment-4820209-20160213000106/@comment-4010415-20160213001813

This could be the denial talking, but I can't help but wonder if they were just talking like that in order to not spoil any returns, since... if I remember correctly, they didn't technically say "die". Miles said he was sad they had to "lose" Roman, but didn't say "kill" Roman.