Care you ass? His mom is still alive. The first woman MC met was his mom iirc, and that man stole the money that means for her and didn't even deliver the letters
i see no sign of that from what ive read so far but if thats the case then fair enough. if he's lying and the kid was able to tell then my only criticism is the author should show that a bit better
from what i could tell the old guy is messed up mentally but his heart genuinely wanted to help. thats why:
when the kid wrote a letter indicating his want to betray the gang he didnt just outright kill him like the gang would want
he pressured them into going all-in with the gang so that they would be safer then trying to run from it
whenever he got a chance to kill one of the kids as crap started going down he never did
dont get me wrong, what he's done is terrible. but from my point of view his final arguments rung true, and just outright killing him without some-kind of "im doing this, you join me or you fight me" comes off as pretty messed-up