Actually, I'm quite confident that it will. We spent a month without so much as glancing at each other, and I certainly wasn't drained of anything in particular. Made no particular difference to me, did it?

No. I do not need you, Frisk.

[They can parrot back Frisk's matter-of-fact tone just fine. Same air of pointing out some patently obvious fact, because it is a fact, isn't it? They didn't lose anything of worth from all of this, and yet they carried on. Proves they're fine. Doesn't it? Proves they don't need anyone.]