Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 1943 Playing God

Date- 18 April 2321

Time- 08:59

Location- Card World, Southern Region, Blossom District, Sky Blossom City

Cortney eagerly waited for Wyattʼs reply, even Diana and Cindy, who knew finding kind people willing to sacrifice themselves for others was harder than finding pearls in the ocean, could not help but perk their ears in anticipation.

They hoped that Wyatt had an answer to this, just like the numerous miracles he had created. However, they would not be disappointed if even Wyatt did not have a solution. After all, kindness was subjective. Finding people based on that would be impossible. Because something kind to someone can be cruel to someone else.

Not to mention, Diana and Cindy felt, it would be unfair of them to expect someone to do what they would not do. After all, what they were asking was not something simple, but to sacrifice their dream, goal, and life. Unlike them Cortney felt differently, she felt there were people out there waiting to do good. She wanted to find them, give them the opportunity they waited for, and enable them to do their best.

Wyatt, on the other hand, did not even bother to grace Cortneyʼs demand with a rejection. Not that he could not do what Cortney was asking but because he could do what she was asking.

With the VR universe on the rise, a simple algorithm could easily sort out its players based on their activities in the VR universe. In a realistic universe simulation like the VR universe, it would be hard for genuinely kind people to go against their nature.

Cortney was not wrong about wanting to find kind people to run orphanages, it was just like a nation trying to find brave people willing to fight for their nation, but that would open up another ethical conundrum. The kind Wyatt hated the most, manipulating people by playing with their emotions. Not to mention the people Cortney was searching for were genuinely kind ones.

Wyatt did not like the idea of asking someone to give their life, dreams, and goals for his selfishness to improve the orphanage system. If he genuinely wanted to help orphaned kids, he should step up make the necessary sacrifice and help. Not finding people who he knew would do the sacrifice and do what he wanted to do. It was just plain emotional manipulation.

The same went for Cortney if she wanted to improve the orphanage she should step up and not be trying to find people who would not hesitate to step up. Such good people had their own destinies, whatever they ended up choosing they would achieve great things or greatly impact othersʼ lives. Wyatt believed they would help the world in their own ways, disturbing their lives for the peace of his heart would be very selfish even if it was for the greater good. Especially when he had other ways to achieve similar results.

It wasnʼt just the orphanage that needed kind people, other places needed kind people to lead as an example and leave a strong impression on their fellow beings. Inspiring the future generation.

Imagine a loving mother of three, who happened to lose one of her kids to traffickers, just when she was heartbroken she was offered a chance to manage an orphanage by Cortney because she knew that mother was kind. What would happen then? Influenced by her trauma and Cortneyʼs words, the mother would willingly take charge of the orphanage and would dedicate her life to it. Was it a romantic ending to a tragic story or a selfish manipulation that separated a loving mother from her two children? This right here, was what Wyatt felt was an example of people trying to play god in othersʼ life.

Cortney waited for Wyattʼs answer but it never came, growing impatient, she asked, ”Wyatt, I am waiting for your answer, can you do it?”

”~Sigh, Cortney, let me ask you did the headmaster ever ask you what your dreams and goals were or how you wanted to lead your life?” Wyatt did not reply to Cortney instead decided to help her understand the consequences of what she was asking him to do.

”Yes, she does. She keeps bugging me about it every time I go to the orphanage. Why do you ask?” Cortney answered causally. However, she had a grin on her face as this time around if the headmaster were to ask her the same, she had an answer.

”Cortney, have you ever asked the headmaster what her dream and goals were? How she wanted to lead her life?” Wyatt asked.

Cortney was 17 years old, she was not as smart as Wyatt when he was seventeen but emotionally she was more mature than Wyatt when he was 17 years old. Heck, just a few hours ago she even lectured him about what she thought was friendship. Which was why Wyatt did not get impatient with her. Instead, he believed with proper guidance she could blossom into a brilliant flower.

”No, it never crossed my mind to ask her that until now. I will ask her that today,” Cortney said with a serious voice. Just now she realized, she did not know the headmaster as well as she thought. Because if she did then she would know what her headmasterʼs dreams and goals were.

”Please, do,” Wyatt nodded and then asked, ”Corteny, just because they are kind people, does it seem good to you to ask them to give up their dreams and goals and live their lives taking care of the orphaned kids? I am not saying they will not be willing to do so, I am asking you if you feel itʼs fair?”

Cortney wanted to retort but then she could not think of a good reason to use as a retort. Then after contemplating for a while, she said, ”Someone has to step up. If even the good people remain silent and look the other way then what will happen to the world?”