>>45608735It’s painfully obvious that he was made to be a significant Dragon trainer before they inserted the Island Challenge last minute. Mina and the Dragon Trial are the most obviously rushed aspects of a rushed game, so Ryuki was probably meant to be connected to the latter.
Then they realised they couldn’t do that without fucking up the pace of the game and just removed him from there. He then wasn’t corrected in USUM like Mina was because for some reason they decided the Vast Poni Trial absolutely needs to be in the way of the finale.