An Extra’s POV

When considering things logically, humans are often bound by emotion.

Feelings of lethargy, or mental fatigue—perhaps depression and other negative states—tend to get in the way of productivity.

Objectively, humans could function for twelve straight hours—being productive throughout, as long as they had the sustenance and the barest minimum of rest to keep them going.

Eight hours of sleep, then four hours embedded in chunks between the twelve hours of constant productive work. These four hours would include feeding, excretion, resting, and the likes.

Every day. All day. Humans could achieve so much if they dedicated twelve hours of their time to their task.

But… that is rarely the case with people.

How much smarter would the average student be if they constantly dedicated twelve hours to their studies for the years they spent in school?

But, more often than not… they do not do this.

How much more money would be made by the average man if he chose not to take time off work, or indulge in needless breaks?

They simply can not help this, however.

Because inbuilt within humans is the poison of emotion, that makes it impossible to be productive a hundred percent of the time.

There's always something that interferes with the constant stream of productivity. Positive or negative… they still interfere with the necessary activities.

Students engage in pointless discourse, play games, watch movies, and fret over those they cultivate feelings for.

Workers get burnout and mental fatigue, even if their physical self is in a perfect state, if they monotonously focus over a single task for too long.

These shackles of emotions, especially the more negative aspects, make them overall harmful to productivity.

As such, they ought to be culled.

To make the ideal person—one who would be perfectly aligned to their goals—useless feelings would need to be eliminated.

… Permanently.

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really how

are irrelevant when it

on Ater, constantly having his rising feelings being suppressed by the system, he finally loosened his clenched

"No… you're wrong."

turned away from Ater, but that didn't mean he couldn't see

you mean by

role in how I function." Rey sighed, raising his head

was why he tried his hardest not to rely on [Dead

examine everything around

himself. He would be able to act on what

his preferred method

world, I had a long series

easier to kill, but the choice was made before

such, he bore all

those allows me to think a lot of my actions through before I engage in them. They also allow me to learn from

pain that came with it

emotions will make me act without consequence." Rey

of his Skills to [Sacrifice] was indeed something he was beginning to regret, but even that emotion was slowly slipping from

to it faster, but… I would have thought things through a lot more if

even without his consent made the whole process

My worrying, scared, insecure… but also

described as a machine—a hollow version

want that. And I don't think you

anything, but keenly stared at Rey with glassy eyes and a mask-like

his brows

you think

he heaved a sigh, his dark gaze piercing Ater's

no longer be the Master you swore loyalty

this, Ater quickly broke into a smile and nodded, even going as far as rendering a round of applause

answer, Master!" He beamed brightly. "You never cease to

"E-eh…?"

widened slightly as he looked at Ater's surprisingly pleased expression. He expected some other kind of reaction,

board with

all kinds of emotions, Master! I'm not some kind of heartless Monster. Whenever I cause chaos and

the kind of entity he was speaking to; a

is that so?" He strained