No, I don't think is that. He' 5 years old, but you and me had been around kids that aren't kids too much to not notice when they are faking naivety.

He was asking for someone to help him with robotics. Do you remember Prowl? The yellow and black robot who fought with us against Eris's beasts? Ys was trying to change his programming, he said that Prowl was visiting him and touched something that circuited him. That's quite hard to believe by itself.

Sari, a friend of Prowl wanted to come to help him, and I worldhopped her to the location Ys gave us. It was a desert.