Goodbye Despair. players control a new protagonist, an amnesiac person who has just become one of Hope's Peak Academy's students. Usami, who claims it to be a field trip. However, the school's principal Monokuma hijacks the trip and usurps Usami’s authority, reducing her to a powerless mascot named Monomi. He then announces the students cannot leave the island unless the participate in the Killing Game, a period of time in which students murder one or two of their classmates and get away with it