Spoilers: Sei totally endeared herself to him very quickly.
HONESTLY she was a certain sort of shounen that Shinnosuke couldn't help but like, as much as he'd deny it to himself (except he really couldn't on Week 2 when he asked to kill her if she ever refused to be a Bandit, thanks for not refusing, Sei!!). And he knew it was stupid, because Sei was reckless and idealistic and all the things that would inevitably get her killed, and he was... unfortunately proven right...
Anyway. Until that point, Sei was his primary source of entertainment, because she rose to the bait beautifully each and every time (which sort of screwed him over because that was part of what endeared her to him, but). Awkwardly, he was also reminded each and every time that she didn't really hate him. Because of his role as Bounty, he died inside every time she defended him??? STOP IT, SEI... even if she turned out to be completely right, since he never did kill anyone to the very end.
As is usually the case with shounen types, he was waiting for her to break, especially as it became clear that, for all of her efforts, some of it was pointless (e.g. alibi checking). That said, as much as he went ugggh, why am I doing this inside, he also wanted to delay it for as long as possible. If it weren't completely obvious by now, he was totally the one who approached Xion and fixed her relationship with Sei after their fight, since even if Xion and Sei's argument should've been "funny" and affirmed his beliefs, he didn't really want to see things be tense between the two of them. Despite the fact that honestly, he knew Sei wasn't going to make it to the end in one piece, he did want things to go as well as they could for her.
AND THEN SEI DISAPPEARED INTO THE MINES and Shinnosuke was torn between giving up on her to spare himself more pain and... not giving up on her—the latter won out, since tbh if Sei hadn't shown up on Friday, Shinnosuke would've gone looking for her that night. Because yeah, he cared... a lot... even if he had to cover it up by teasing the hell out of her even after that.
Her death came as a major blow, even though, again, he'd seen it coming since forever, and leave it to Sei to die for dumb reasons. It was one of those times where he just shut down and let himself focus on other things, but it was hard for him—Sei's death was the first one in this place of someone he genuinely cared about. He didn't know how to handle his grief—or how to juggle Xion's on top of it—and when Yuna tried to confront him about it, Shinnosuke resorted to pretending not to care and tried to convince himself that you know what, Sei probably hated him anyway, so whatever!! (He knew this was utter bullshit.)
... The fact that he went around carrying her swords afterwards, even if part of it was for pragmatic reasons (free weapon!!), also probably speaks for itself. Why'd you have to die, Sei. :(
It didn't help when he learned that Sei had been a Bandit. Honestly, he didn't judge her at all for it, because he gets it, whatever. It was realizing that she'd almost definitely been a Bandit during Week 4 and what that entailed, since that meant she'd chosen not to go after him when he was in the stocks. Another awkward acceptance that ah, right, Sei cared about him maybe...
SEI, WHY. WHY DID YOU HAVE TO [INSERT EVERY SINGLE THING SEI EVER DID].
But anyway, now that everything's done and they're going home, he's glad that she got her leg back, and he hopes that she can return to the people she loves and have a relatively happy (sort of) life.
He also still has no idea that she's a girl, oops.
(Fun fact: after realizing that Xion had a crush on him, he briefly tried to get Xion crushing on Sei instead.)
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HONESTLY she was a certain sort of shounen that Shinnosuke couldn't help but like, as much as he'd deny it to himself (except he really couldn't on Week 2 when he asked to kill her if she ever refused to be a Bandit, thanks for not refusing, Sei!!). And he knew it was stupid, because Sei was reckless and idealistic and all the things that would inevitably get her killed, and he was... unfortunately proven right...
Anyway. Until that point, Sei was his primary source of entertainment, because she rose to the bait beautifully each and every time (which sort of screwed him over because that was part of what endeared her to him, but). Awkwardly, he was also reminded each and every time that she didn't really hate him. Because of his role as Bounty, he died inside every time she defended him??? STOP IT, SEI... even if she turned out to be completely right, since he never did kill anyone to the very end.
As is usually the case with shounen types, he was waiting for her to break, especially as it became clear that, for all of her efforts, some of it was pointless (e.g. alibi checking). That said, as much as he went ugggh, why am I doing this inside, he also wanted to delay it for as long as possible. If it weren't completely obvious by now, he was totally the one who approached Xion and fixed her relationship with Sei after their fight, since even if Xion and Sei's argument should've been "funny" and affirmed his beliefs, he didn't really want to see things be tense between the two of them. Despite the fact that honestly, he knew Sei wasn't going to make it to the end in one piece, he did want things to go as well as they could for her.
AND THEN SEI DISAPPEARED INTO THE MINES and Shinnosuke was torn between giving up on her to spare himself more pain and... not giving up on her—the latter won out, since tbh if Sei hadn't shown up on Friday, Shinnosuke would've gone looking for her that night. Because yeah, he cared... a lot... even if he had to cover it up by teasing the hell out of her even after that.
Her death came as a major blow, even though, again, he'd seen it coming since forever, and leave it to Sei to die for dumb reasons. It was one of those times where he just shut down and let himself focus on other things, but it was hard for him—Sei's death was the first one in this place of someone he genuinely cared about. He didn't know how to handle his grief—or how to juggle Xion's on top of it—and when Yuna tried to confront him about it, Shinnosuke resorted to pretending not to care and tried to convince himself that you know what, Sei probably hated him anyway, so whatever!! (He knew this was utter bullshit.)
... The fact that he went around carrying her swords afterwards, even if part of it was for pragmatic reasons (free weapon!!), also probably speaks for itself. Why'd you have to die, Sei. :(
It didn't help when he learned that Sei had been a Bandit. Honestly, he didn't judge her at all for it, because he gets it, whatever. It was realizing that she'd almost definitely been a Bandit during Week 4 and what that entailed, since that meant she'd chosen not to go after him when he was in the stocks. Another awkward acceptance that ah, right, Sei cared about him maybe...
SEI, WHY. WHY DID YOU HAVE TO [INSERT EVERY SINGLE THING SEI EVER DID].
But anyway, now that everything's done and they're going home, he's glad that she got her leg back, and he hopes that she can return to the people she loves and have a relatively happy (sort of) life.
He also still has no idea that she's a girl, oops.
(Fun fact: after realizing that Xion had a crush on him, he briefly tried to get Xion crushing on Sei instead.)