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 feel,

I said, Master… feelings are irrelevant

Ater, constantly having his rising feelings being suppressed

"No… you're wrong."

didn't mean

do you mean by

key role in how I function." Rey sighed, raising his

not

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

didn't matter that the process would take longer than a more automated version of himself. He would be able to act

his preferred method

this world, I had a long series of deliberations, and then I finally made

to kill, but the

bore all

and Pain… my aversion to those allows me to think a lot of my actions through before I engage in them. They also allow me to

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

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

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

have ultimately been the best decision, and this suppression made me get to it faster, but…

System controlling his emotions, even without his consent

some point, I'll stop being myself. My worrying, scared, insecure… but also

be described as

I don't think

moment, Ater remained the same. He didn't say anything, but keenly stared at Rey

raised his

do you think

sigh, his dark gaze piercing Ater's crimson

I would no longer be the

this, Ater quickly broke into a smile and nodded, even going

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

"E-eh…?"

eyes widened slightly as he looked at Ater's surprisingly pleased expression.

you were on board

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

kind of entity he was speaking to; a

that so?" He strained