A compliment? Gadriel had no context for what to do in face of one of those. Ultramarines did not compliment each other, beyond things like 'so I see you are not yet dead'. He shrugged it off, and the discomfort that came with it.

This was probably the longest time Gadriel had gone without someone trying to kill him. Definitely the longest time he'd been disarmed. It was...irritating. But since the other man was talking, he might as well ask. "Why is everyone having such a hard time with this?" Did you, like, not grow up in a world where literally everything was trying to kill you?