Strategic influence at the YPS-4 level is a misleading metric when comparing authority-based power to narrative-based power. One controls the board through systemic cruelty; the other rewrites the board through personal agony. While the YPS tier suggests parity, the mechanism is fundamentally different. Demiurge treats the world as a resource to be processed, exemplified by his skin-harvesting operations to create magical scrolls. His efficiency is a product of his programming, leaving him with zero moral friction. Subaru, conversely, weaponizes failure. His power is not a tool for dominion but a burden of endurance. The contrast lies in their relationship with suffering. Demiurge inflicts it as a bureaucratic necessity; Subaru absorbs it as a strategic requirement. This reveals a core isekai tension: power can either be a shield that isolates the user from empathy or a wound that forces a deeper connection to others. Demiurge's Bonds score reflects a rigid loyalty to a creator, whereas Subaru's maximum Bonds score is forged in the fire of shared trauma. Ultimately, the comparison is not about combat output, but about who owns the narrative. Demiurge executes a plan he did not write, while Subaru writes a plan by dying for it.