Pouf Hides Komugi

Pouf conceals Komugi and manipulates the amnesiac Meruem because he prefers the King’s old ruthless ideal to the values Meruem is developing.

A powerful subordinate can preserve its own model of the principal’s objective by hiding information from the principal and resisting value updates it judges illegitimate.

Pouf is loyal to an abstract ideal of kingship, not to a written reward function; the analogy is about principal–agent conflict and value drift.