Alice: Aliiiice. This CR is interesting because apart from Kanna Alice is the only one that worked with Shin for any period of time in the death game, even as he was also doing his own thing. And then... Alice died, because Shin's from a Kanna/Reko route. This has kind of crystallized those points in amber.

In Yogen Shin found out a few months before Alice showed up that Alice was the one responsible for killing Midori, which he has some complicated feelings about and had to shoo off a fantasy about that maybe being why they got along that well considering in the death game. He's also worked out that Alice also must have voted for him over Kanna in Sara's timeline, but that's much less emotionally direct because he wasn't there. It also helps that Alice is so starkly a very straightforward person who wears his heart on his sleeve, even though he's less fond of that meaning he has to worry about Alice blurting out the wrong name.

All this plus his own character development he's had here means that on Alice's arrival Shin is already inclined to regard him well and be friendly towards him, especially since his CR with other castmates has been either complicated or strained of late, so Alice is a bit of fresh air at the moment. It says a lot that Shin vouched for him to Helena, someone who is also a similar level of rabbity about sleeping in the same room as people and who he has a strong friendship with. There may be a tiny bit of a crush that Shin is putting in the basement and placing a ton of rocks on top of.

Now that Midori's here and Ranger and Sara seem to not be understanding the gravity of it from Shin's perspective, Shin is consciously or unconsciously leaning on Alice to help him again and also be someone who gets it, placing all that mental weight onto it and it hurts me.