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 you feel,

said, Master… feelings are irrelevant when it comes to

being suppressed by the system,

"No… you're wrong."

mean he couldn't

you mean by

a key role in how I function." Rey sighed, raising his head as he stared

why he tried his hardest not to rely on

and my anxiety allows me to critically examine everything around me to make what

would take longer than a more automated version of himself. He would be able to act on

preferred method

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

make it easier to kill,

all responsibility

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 and

he would feel the pain that came with it and prevent such a thing from happening

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

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

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

his emotions, even without his consent made the whole process

worrying, scared, insecure… but also critical, skeptical, and caring self… they'll be

be left could only be described as

And I

He didn't say anything, but keenly stared at Rey with glassy

he raised his brows and

do you

a sigh, his dark

no longer be

and nodded, even going as far

He beamed brightly. "You never

"E-eh…?"

he looked at Ater's surprisingly pleased expression. He expected some other

were on board with

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

again, Rey was reminded of the kind of entity

that so?" He strained