He’d trained for Total Victory. Not necessarily for what comes after.

[itmeanstruth]

Those that ventured out to Minoru’s world to watch this year’s American Ninja Warrior Finals live and in person, knew exactly why the resident hospital orderly had been on freerunning across Cloud 9 since he got back. Those who couldn’t make it out there might have caught an interdimensional replay on TV. The twins had already seen it playing on one of the many screens in The Angel’s Retreat.

To those who hadn’t, though, Minoru’s question was entirely hypothetical, an innocuous kind of thing lots of people chatted about after a long week at work. And perhaps that was for the best.

“Okay, so… if you suddenly had a million dollars, what would you do with it?”

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[erivryoneslilsis]

"Mm! I don't get to see it a whole lot, but the big kids use them to train to be Heroes when they aren't using the really big stuff." Yay! High five! She giggles and nods. "That take a lot of gust! Um! Guts! So many people try so many times, including grandmas and grandpas...Hardly anybody makes it, and if they do it's not more than once."

Quirks make it hard for shows like that to exist anymore. If Deku were around he'd probably say that the closest thing is UA's sports festival, and that is so exclusive it's not really funny. "You've been making sure to keep up on your electrolytes and stuff? I read that they're important when I was helping Shota-san grade the students papers."

[itmeanstruth]

“The first time I made it all the way to the Finals, I fell in Stage 3. Last year, I got hurt in Stage 2, but still managed to finish in time to make an attempt at Stage 3.”

Said attempt didn’t get very far. Not when he couldn’t put any weight on that ankle. (Thankfully, it turned out to just be sprained, not broken. But they didn’t know it at the time.)

“This year was the first time I ever made it all the way to Stage 4. And my coach, Damien, was there. He said I had my best rope climbing time ever!”

He’d trained hard over the last three years, and the improvement was evident in his technique and the obstacles he was able to clear. The way he grinned when he talked about his time on the show, it was evident that he was in it for the sheer fun of it, not the potential prize money. Especially when he excitedly remarked, “Woah, the kids at your school train on even bigger stuff?!”