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

said, Master… feelings are irrelevant when it

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

"No… you're wrong."

away from Ater, but that didn't mean

you mean by that,

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

not to

of the future and my anxiety allows me to critically examine everything around me to make what I deem to

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

his preferred method of

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

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

all responsibility for

think a lot of my actions through before I engage in

would feel the pain that came with

those emotions will make me act without

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

been the best decision, and this suppression made me get to it faster, but… I would have thought things through a lot more if I was

his emotions, even without his

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

be left could only be described as a machine—a hollow

don't want that. And I

anything, but keenly stared at Rey with glassy eyes and

raised his

do you

smiled as he heaved a sigh, his

be the Master you

quickly broke into a smile and nodded, even going as far as rendering a round of applause

a splendid answer, Master!" He beamed brightly.

"E-eh…?"

pleased expression. He expected some other kind of reaction, not

board with the whole emotional

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

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

so?" He