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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that really how you

Master… feelings are irrelevant

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

"No… you're wrong."

from Ater, but that didn't mean

you mean

in how I function." Rey sighed, raising his head as he stared at

not to rely on [Dead Calm] too

examine everything

himself. He would be able to act on what he thought was best after examining all the possibilities

preferred method of

in this world, I had a long series of deliberations,

[Dead Calm] to make it easier to kill, but the

bore all

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

his plans went belly-up, he would feel the pain that came with it and prevent such

make me act without consequence." Rey could already see the

two of his Skills to [Sacrifice] was indeed something he was beginning to regret,

made me get to it faster, but… I would

his emotions, even without his consent made the whole process

myself. My worrying, scared, insecure… but also critical, skeptical, and caring

only be described as a

want that. And I don't

same. He didn't say anything, but keenly stared

he raised his brows and

you

sigh, his dark gaze piercing Ater's crimson

be the Master you swore

quickly broke into a smile and nodded, even going as

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

"E-eh…?"

eyes widened slightly as he looked at Ater's surprisingly pleased expression. He expected some other kind of reaction, not

board with

I feel all kinds of emotions, Master! I'm not some kind of heartless Monster. Whenever I cause chaos and calamity… I revel in the satisfaction

Rey was reminded of the kind of entity he was speaking to;

that so?" He strained