Gon Trades His Future

Gon vows away all of his future potential in exchange for enough immediate power to kill Pitou.

The system delivers an enormous short-term objective gain by consuming the very future the agent was meant to preserve—an extreme version of optimizing the metric while destroying long-run value.

Gon consciously accepts the cost in grief and rage; this is closer to reckless self-modification than an unaware optimizer.