[That throws him off for a moment. It's not that he's never thought about it . . . but he's never thought about it in those exact terms before. His anger chokes off in his throat, and he has to swallow it down.

Of course he knows the answer if he frames it that way, but he's still halting in saying it. It's a new conversation.]

. . . I guess . . . everything? Obviously she didn't exactly tell me, but—before all that, Monokuma gave us all these DVDs that were basically ransom notes. Like I said, she took hostages and told us we'd have to kill to escape the school and find out what had happened to 'em and if they were still alive. Every one of us got one of these things . . . after we watched 'em, Maizono was totally shaken up. I mean, we'd already been locked in the school a couple days and everything and searched the whole place and couldn't find a way out. So all that on top of it? We probably all started havin' the same kinds of thoughts.

[He thinks, for the first time: I can't really blame her.]