It's either try to make light of it and roll with a bad situation or give Lucifer and his minions what they want, and Clint's not big on that. He knows he doesn't have to tell Natasha that he's not big on complying, not when the person at the reins is, well, a hellish jerk.

"By now? Yeah, you probably should." He doesn't need the reminder, and neither does she. She was there for the aftermath, after all. "Where to start? Tokyo? Before Tokyo?" He's not sure he wants to namedrop Vormir.

When she touches the chain, he just glares at nothing in particular and mumbles a muttered curse. It's not a surprise that a more sadistic bent is starting to show up, but he does wonder why now, specifically?