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

irrelevant when it

constantly having his rising feelings being suppressed by the system, he finally loosened his

"No… you're wrong."

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

you mean by

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

hardest not to rely on [Dead Calm]

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

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

preferred method

had a long series of deliberations, and then I

Calm] to make it easier to kill, but the choice

he bore all responsibility for his

my actions through before I engage in them. They

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

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

Skills to [Sacrifice] was indeed something he

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

his emotions, even without

scared, insecure… but also critical,

only be described as a machine—a

want that. And I don't think

He didn't say anything, but keenly stared at

his brows

you think

a sigh, his

longer be the

even going as far as rendering

a splendid answer, Master!" He beamed brightly.

"E-eh…?"

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

on board with the whole emotional

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

was reminded of the kind of entity he was speaking

so?" He strained a