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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how you

are irrelevant when

on Ater, constantly having his rising feelings being suppressed by

"No… you're wrong."

didn't mean

do you mean by

emotions play a key role in how I function." Rey sighed, raising

his hardest not to rely on [Dead Calm]

future and my anxiety allows me to critically examine everything around me

the process would take longer than a more automated version of himself. He would be able to act on what he thought was best after examining all the possibilities presented

was his preferred method of

had a long series of deliberations, and then I finally

kill, but the choice was made before

all responsibility

to those allows me to think a lot of my actions through before I

went belly-up, he would feel the pain that came with it

me act without consequence." Rey could

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

ultimately been the best decision, and this suppression made me get to it faster, but… I would have thought things through a lot more if I

about the System controlling his emotions, even without his

myself. My worrying, scared, insecure… but also critical, skeptical, and caring self… they'll

only be described

And I don't think you

didn't say anything, but

his brows

you think

sigh, his dark gaze

would no longer be the Master you swore

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

Master!" He beamed brightly. "You

"E-eh…?"

Ater's surprisingly pleased expression. He

thought you were on board with the

of emotions, Master! I'm not some kind of heartless Monster. Whenever I

reminded of the kind of entity he was speaking to;

is that so?" He strained