Simon was dead.
He died in a bathtub, and everyone initially thought he had drowned.
But when his body was dragged out, they found it covered in burn marks, a plastic bag was fitted over his head, his tongue had been pulled out, and his body seemed to have been dissected, with his organs all thrown into the bathtub—it was a gruesome death. Clearly, whoever had done this had tortured Simon in some way before killing him.
When Ah Jin arrived and saw the scene, he vomited against the door. Simon's family was both angry and grief-stricken. It had taken the Skunks years to raise a child with the Illusion Technique; they had invested so much effort, and now Simon's father was crying out for the school to take responsibility, declaring that he would take the case straight to the Federation's supreme court.