...First of all, it wasn't the actual Jabberwock Island. What we were in was a virtual reality. You had to play that game ViViD when you arrived, right? It was like that, the world we were in... it was called the New World Program.

When we were put in that program, our memories of our years at Hope's Peak were erased. [He pauses. He got to all of the things that may be hardest to believe right away. But there's no helping it; back in Haven he decided not to keep anything from anyone any longer, no matter what. It was dangerous to have dark, dark secrets, secrets that could be used against you.] But it wasn't meant to be... what it became.

It was supposed to be a program for rehabilitation, to restore hope, but a virus changed it. That's what... Monokuma was. A part of that virus.