Beggar’s Keep

Top of her class, and it lands her a captaincy at a crumbling fort nobody wanted. Rami Hoshino graduates the Kingdom of Arkelion's finest military academy expecting glory and gets a decrepit outpost on the edge of nowhere instead.

She takes the demotion on the chin and decides to build the place into something worth commanding, which is easier said than done when your garrison is broke, undermanned, and surrounded by monsters with their own ideas about who runs the territory.

Running the fort means managing what little you have and making calls about who fights, who works, and who gets used to keep the place solvent, with the strategy layer sitting alongside the more personal negotiations that come with commanding a desperate outpost. It's less a power fantasy than a survival one, at least at first.