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

said, Master… feelings are irrelevant when it

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

"No… you're wrong."

didn't mean he couldn't see the expression

mean by that,

a key role in how I function." Rey

not to rely on

allows me to critically examine everything around me to make

a more automated version of himself. He would be able to act on what he thought was best after examining

preferred method

took my first life in this world, I had a long series of deliberations, and then I finally made

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

he bore all responsibility for

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

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

will make me act without consequence." Rey could

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

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

about the System controlling his emotions, even without his consent made the whole process

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

could only be described as a machine—a hollow

I

but keenly stared at Rey with glassy

he raised his brows and

do you

sigh, his dark gaze piercing

be the Master you

nodded, even going as far as rendering a round of applause

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

"E-eh…?"

he looked at Ater's surprisingly pleased expression. He

were on board with the whole

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

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

so?" He strained a