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 comes to this

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

do you mean by

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

was why he tried his hardest not to rely on [Dead Calm]

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

himself. He would be able to act on what he thought was best after examining all

was his preferred method of

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

kill, but the choice was made before

all responsibility for

of my actions through before I engage in them. They also allow me to learn

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

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

decision, and this suppression made me get to

even without his consent made

some point, I'll stop being myself. My worrying, scared, insecure… but also critical, skeptical, and caring self… they'll be

only be described as a machine—a

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

the same. He didn't say anything, but keenly stared at Rey with

his brows

you

a sigh, his

no longer be the Master you

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

splendid answer, Master!" He beamed brightly. "You

"E-eh…?"

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

thought you were on board with

not some kind of heartless

kind of entity he was speaking to; a Chaotic Evil

that so?" He