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,

Master… feelings are irrelevant when it

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

"No… you're wrong."

away from Ater, but that didn't mean he couldn't see the expression on

do you mean by that,

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

he tried his hardest not

critically examine everything around me to make what

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

his preferred method of

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

easier to kill, but the choice was made before the Skill

all

me to think a lot of my actions through before I engage in them. They also allow me to learn from my mistakes and make better

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

emotions will make me act without consequence."

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

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

without his consent made the

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

described as a machine—a hollow version of

don't want that. And I don't think you want that

anything, but keenly stared

he raised his

you

smiled as he heaved a sigh, his dark gaze

be the

and nodded, even going as far as rendering a round

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

"E-eh…?"

Ater's surprisingly pleased expression. He expected some other kind of reaction, not

board with the whole

heartless Monster. Whenever I cause chaos and calamity… I revel in the satisfaction

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

so?" He strained