Administrative authority in an isekai setting functions as a psychological trap rather than a tool of liberation. When placing a YPS-4 overseer like Albedo against a YPS-3 administrator like Hakuto Kunai, the disparity in destructive ceiling becomes secondary to the shared tragedy of their autonomy. Albedo represents the horror of external programming; her devotion is a modified setting, and her administrative brilliance serves a will that is not her own. Conversely, Kunai represents the horror of internal erasure. While he operates with a higher Ego score, his Growth trajectory is a descent into the identity of his own avatar, trading his salaryman memories for the cold logic of a Demon Lord. The comparison exposes a cynical truth about the 'authority' power type: whether you are a creation serving a master or a creator inhabiting a creation, the system eventually overwrites the individual. Albedo's static cruelty and Kunai's meritocratic indifference are two sides of the same coin—the loss of human empathy in exchange for systemic efficiency. The gap between Nation Level and City Level impact is irrelevant here because both characters are fundamentally subsumed by the roles they occupy. One is a slave to a line of code, and the other is a ghost in his own machine.
Archetype breakdowns and dispute court land in later phases.