! Child Abuse is going to be mentioned !
Simon and the others chase after the mechanical arm running deeper into the cave, and they, encounter the figure, and they see that it is a teen.
Both Simon and Selene point their staves at the teen but Lucia stops them from doing anything bad by criticizing them and pointing her sword against them
"Hey hey! Put your staves down! Don't be like that. At least hear the child out; don't just immediately try to kill someone; this isn't right."
Simon puts his weapon down, but Selene keeps her weapon up. Simon looked at her and gestured to put her staff down and listen. Simon apologized for his action
"I'm sorry, that was too far wasn't it?"
Lucia takes a deep breath out and lowers her guard. She turns around to see the 8-year-old child look like he is about to cry, with little tears about to flow; she finds it cute but also pitiful.
Lucia sat close to the 8-year-old and patted his head, suddenly the child hugged her hiding his face and begged for forgiveness
"I- I'm sorry... Please just don't send me back to my mom and dad... They'll just... Beat me up... Again... And again... And again... I promise I won't do it again; I'll leave this place. All I wanted was to learn about the robots..."
The trio was immediately alerted by the child's words. They were shocked and felt bad about themselves, especially since they destroyed the old robots the child was repairing tirelessly. Simon and Selene go close to the child too and Simon tries to comfort the child
"Hey buddy, we're sorry. Can you forgive us? Don't worry, we won't send you back. What's your name?"
The child wipes away his tears with his hands and softly responds
"I- I'm I mean... My name is Kaelis Varnwick... I stayed here ever since I ran away from home..."
Suddenly a heartbeat boomed, a burning smell was in the air and something giant was covered by a giant fabric, Selene ran over and took it off a giant mechanical heart was beating, and suddenly a loud voice was heard
"Who hurt him! Who hurt the child! Who cares hurt the student of mine, student of KAL-DIUS!"
Simon pauses and a cold sweat drops down from his forehead he quickly responds but before that, he thinks to himself
"KAL-DIUS?! The... God of Machinery?... He should've been lost to history, too, but it seems he's back... The Architech of Argent, The Cogborn Soverign..."
Simon apologized with an urgent and nervous voice
"We apologize, we didn't mean to we just tho-"
He gets interrupted by KAL-DIUS who makes the fragments of the broken Runeforges repaired and back in place a sudden energy fills the 2 destroyed robots but all of it is stopped by Kaelis who orders KAL-DIUS to stop
"Stop it! It was my fault... I was the one who sneaked into this property. It wasn't any of their fault. Don't be angry at them..."
KAL-DIUS tried to justify himself with understandable reasons but Kaelis just blames himself
"No, it's my fault... It's always been my fault... That's why Mom and Dad always beat me up... Always hurts me.."
Simon looked pissed about this little innocent child being abused but kept it under wraps he kneels down to the level of the child and pats his head
"Hey no, it's not your fault your a good kid, I'd even say you're a genius even to repair these old and rusty robots you're unique, c'mere give me a high five"
Simon raises his hand up for a high five but the child hugs him by the neck and cries all his pain and burden out and he requests something from Simon
"Can you just pick me up? And not let me go?"
Simon picks the little boy up and hugs him back, to which the boy keeps crying; he doesn't know how to respond. He has never known love before and does not understand.
Simon sang a silent yet beautiful lullaby, letting the child sleep peacefully; he kept hugging the child and eventually put him on the couch.
KAL-DIUS thanked Simon and commented about Simon's skills being good with children
"Thank you... I could have never known what to do... Could you take care of the child? I'll repay you even, I'll tell you about the robots and all that-"
Simon interrupts the god of machinery with a simple shush and gestures towards Kaelis, but he smiles and looks at Selene and Lucia who look as if their heart melted at Simon's gentle act and kindness towards the boy
"It's fine, in a way, I can understand him with most of my family not loving me; I'm sorry I destroyed his robot, though... It must've been his only comfort huh? Just answer me this: since when did he come here? At what age was he then?"
KAL-DIUS responded and commented back at Simon's words
"It may have been 3 years already? I taught him after I saw his talent so he was 5 years old at that time, and yeah the robot was his only source of comfort and joy, but he was sad when he couldn't wake one robot up there are 3 surviving ones here but you and those two destroyed the Gearbound Colossus and Shadowveil Stalker"
Simon looked intrigued by new information and he asked quietly so as not to wake up Kaelis
"Hm? 2 woke up? Then what about the pair of small flying mechanical hands strong enough to drag the Gearbound colossus and the Shadowveil Stalker? And what's the robot he couldn't reawaken? Is there any way we can help repair the broken robot"
KAL-DIUS sounded proud of his student with the first question and answered the rest with a normal tone
"Hehe, the pair of mechanical hands are actually robots too but it is original as Kaelis made it himself for transportation and others, oh and the robot he can't wake up is the Runewind Machinist a robot focused on magic spells based on machinery they were designed to be able to control small droids like nano-machine but I prefer steampunk even though there are better options, and you can help by giving him resources to grow his knowledge and talent and if possible find a proper family that can adopt him."
Simon nods and smiles again before saying something in an ominous tone with a sudden cold glare
"I'm going to have to get payback for little Kaelis."
In a second he used gravity magic to go somewhere and eventually ended up at the Varnwick house, it looked as if it was rich but in a report, he found while searching they were poor but he figured they must've set up something like a charity for their lost kid where he breaks open the door to find some beer bottles and syringes in the floor.
He uses gravity magic once more, even though it is taking a toll on him already, and floats into the household where he finds Kaelis' mother and father; the father is watching TV while the mother is in the kitchen smoking. He goes into, breaking the door.
To which Kaelis's father responded angrily
"Hey, who the fuck are you! What kind of shit, head breaks into the house of grieving parents who lost their child?!"
Simon looked even more pissed and he floats over and beats the father up while slapping the mother hard
"You should be ashamed of yourselves; I'm letting you live and be better people."
As Simon heads up, he sees a sign on the yard as if advertising that their "beloved" child is lost; later, Simon gets back into the cave, where he finds Selene and Lucia sitting next to the child who is looking for him, Kaelis asks Simon a question.
"Hey mister, what's your name?"
Simon smiled at Kaelis not letting it show that he had done something bad for his opinion
"I'm Simon, nice to meet you Kaelis"
Kaelis smiles at Simon and asks another question. This time, it is important.