"Then you'd have to stop callin me 'mister'." Gladio laughed and then... he dropped back to lay in the grass. He lifted his hands to curl behind his head as a pillow and looked up at the clouds.

"But I'm patient...I know one day you'll feel comfortable around me where you can do that. I can wait." His smile had softened now. He wasn't teasing her, not really. Gladio honestly believed that one day Madoka would trust him enough that she wouldn't feel the need to be polite with him. Sure, he could have taken the easy way and done what the others had and gotten her to drop the 'mister' for 'uncle', but that was just swapping one for the other. He wanted her to be able to call him by name. He wanted her to be able to make that choice herself. Not have it foisted upon her.

So he would wait. And occasionally he would tease her and call her 'miss', but that was only fair, right?