Minor spoiler but....
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Is this enough? Hope so...
Well, if have read/will read the novel, in the long run they see him as a sort of father figure, and cale too considers them a bit like his children, expecially Raon...
The way the fur balls are like "little brother! Little brother!" xD does that make Cale the father? Omg lmao he keeps picking up kids by accident