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,

are irrelevant when it

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

"No… you're wrong."

but that didn't mean he couldn't see the expression

do you mean by that,

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

he tried his hardest not to rely on

examine

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

preferred

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

Calm] to make it easier to kill, but the

such, he bore all

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

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

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

he was beginning to regret, but even that emotion was slowly

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

without his consent

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

only be described as a machine—a hollow version

that. And I

same. He didn't say anything, but keenly stared

raised his brows

you

he heaved a sigh, his dark gaze piercing Ater's

would no longer be

Ater quickly broke into a smile and nodded, even going as far as

a splendid answer, Master!" He beamed brightly.

"E-eh…?"

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

you were on board with

some kind of heartless Monster. Whenever I

reminded of the kind of entity he

that so?"