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Considering he was straight up told "Do not trust anything but the sheep" by the one who hired him I think it's safe to assume that means there's something or someone separate from the sheep that he shouldn't trust and that others before him certainly did
Yep, he is lucky that he is alive.
You are the first one I care about? So there were others before him? Like did he kill those men who looked after the sheeps? Probably.