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,

Master… feelings are irrelevant

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

"No… you're wrong."

mean he couldn't see the

do you mean by that,

emotions play a key role in how I function." Rey sighed,

tried his hardest not to

allows me to critically examine everything around me

would be able

preferred

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

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

he bore all responsibility for his

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

the pain that came with it

access to those emotions will make me act without consequence."

feed two of his Skills to [Sacrifice] was indeed something he was beginning to regret, but even that emotion was slowly slipping

suppression made me get to it faster,

System controlling his emotions, even without his

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

would be left could only be described

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

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

he raised his brows

do you

heaved a sigh,

no longer be the Master

even going as far as rendering a round of applause to

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

"E-eh…?"

as he looked at Ater's surprisingly pleased expression. He expected some other kind of reaction,

you were on board with the whole emotional

not some kind of heartless Monster. Whenever I cause

kind of entity he was

so?" He