It's not the reaction he expected, given this was the last of a few ways he's gone deliberately ominous - meaning to scare her into choose to go away on her own. But he should have expected it. Reira's odd and always seems to react differently than others.

"You really can just take this all in stride, huh..?" Papyrus slouches in on himself, holding his tail and its disconnected tip in his hands, but there's a little smile in his voice.

"I haven't... tried any of that. Maybe... If you're right, and I go back to... one Papyrus, I'll try it."