Was there really any point to having a romantic relationship with someone? Tress wasn't sure. It was nice to have company every now and then and perhaps someone to support you, but if you could support yourself just fine, they weren't really necessary; just nice to have. At least that’s how Tress saw it. So the fact that she had trouble getting along with people wasn't too major a thing, was it? Beyond being able to establish a professional relationship with them, at minimum, but she thought she could do that well enough when she needed to.

And yet people called her cold. They expected her to be friendly beyond just professional pretenses. She was capable of getting people to like her if she wanted, right? She maybe just had to try a little harder than most people. But she didn't have a reason to. Except loneliness. Loneliness made no sense. Why did she get lonely? It wasn't like she had any desire to join in their mundane, stupid small talk or gossip or rumors, but somehow she still managed to feel left out. Why couldn't humans have been solitary creatures rather than pack animals?

Tress blamed it on human weakness. It was human weakness when she fell in love with a man and believed him when he said he loved her back. It was that very same weakness that made him change his mind when he saw her sister, causing him to spend more time with her and eventually rescind his love for Tress in order to proclaim it for her younger sibling. It was also human weakness that made her sister think he was telling the truth when he professed his love for her; to not see that if he could change his mind so quickly about Tress, then he could do the same to her sister.

Human weakness was what blinded both sisters to the man’s greed. Greed, of course, could also be attributed to human weakness, as could lust. That same weakness drove the man to spending money that belonged to his wife, drinking, and going after younger women. It caused her sister’s death. And it made Tress lonely in her sister’s absence. Lonely. Grief-stricken. Vengeful. Human weakness was what maddened her enough to desire the man’s death - the very same man she knew she had once loved.

Why did humans have to be so weak?

Perhaps if they weren’t, fairness and justice wouldn’t be, either. Criminals who got sent to jail wouldn’t eventually be released to commit crimes once more. Law enforcement, juries, and judges wouldn’t be persuaded toward bias through bribes. Punishments and consequences would pose enough of a threat that people wouldn’t even want to consider the risk of incurring them. Perhaps injustice needed to be eradicated at its root. And perhaps the Negaverse was the perfect eradicator.

Tress wondered if the Negaverse would be able to eradicate her own weaknesses, such as her loneliness, with time. They seemed efficient and reliable and she had no reason to doubt them as of yet. At any rate, they seemed to be more orderly than the members of the Order faction, and they were supposed to be Chaos.

Well, if Order wanted to keep the world as it was and the world as it was was unfair, Tress preferred Chaos. Perhaps it was Fate’s irony that a little Chaos may have been all the world needed to be reformed as a world of proper fairness, organization, and rules, quashing injustice and human weakness.