The guy is a master manipulator.
Most people underestimate how much we all just want to be embraced and accepted.
This will end badly, it has too many death flags... but... if he really is an "evil" manipulator inside, who uses people as he sees fit... there is a chance that they will all survive, simply by the fact that they are fated to be used by someone.
Man... this story uses all of its characters masterfully, the twists and turns are always unexpected but at the same time entirely "predictable".