Survival Strategy for Weak Territories! ~ My Territory Will Be Destroyed No Matter How Many Times It Is Repeated. How Can This Be Saved? ~

Crain von Asgard, an eighteen-year-old viscount governing a modest territory that serves as a transportation hub, receives a declaration of war from the powerful Marquis Ragna family under the false accusation of obstructing trade routes. Before he can even send a reply or appeal to the royal palace, an army of thirty thousand launches a surprise attack and annihilates the peaceful Asgard Territory on March 30th, Kingdom Calendar 503. Crain dies in the chaos. He awakens to find himself in his bedroom at age fifteen, with the furniture and his body exactly as they were years earlier. The newspaper confirms the date is April 1st, Kingdom Calendar 500. His memories of the future are vivid and complete. He believes he has been sent back in time and decides to change his fate. Knowing a cold summer will cause widespread famine, he immediately negotiates a marriage with Count Jotun, whose territory is the kingdom’s breadbasket, and leases his fields to grow cold-resistant northern crops for profit when food prices soar. However, this engagement enrages Count Vanargand, the Eastern Margrave and commander of the kingdom’s strongest cavalry. The Count, in his late thirties, had been secretly courting the same girl since she was eight and considers Crain’s action a grave insult. He sends a declaration of war demanding blood atonement and marches twenty thousand elite troops across several territories with astonishing speed, ignoring all messengers and pleas. On July 5th, 500, Crain musters three thousand untrained conscripts and faces the Eastern army on the eastern plains. The battle is hopeless. The veteran cavalry charges freely, the Asgard army collapses, and Crain is trampled to death. He wakes up again on the same April morning, now fully aware that he is trapped in a time loop: each death resets him to this starting point with all memories intact. He understands that every change he makes carries unforeseen consequences. The marriage to Count Jotun, intended to secure finances, provoked the Eastern Count. Avoiding the Marquis Ragna’s ambition alone is not enough. In his third life, Crain revises his strategy drastically. He refuses a political marriage with Count Jotun and instead proposes a purely commercial field lease without any family bond, hoping to avoid the Eastern Count’s wrath. He plans to reject any marriage proposal politely if it arises. He looks northward, where a cluster of feuding minor nobles occupies the mountains, considering ways to expand his influence gradually without open war, but he lacks the military strength and a legal justification for conquest. He also understands that Marquis Ragna will inevitably target his territory again due to its strategic location as a roadblock for trade; he must prepare economically and diplomatically. His ultimate goal is to survive and protect his territory from being crushed between two great powers. The story follows his third attempt as he carefully navigates the web of enmities, using his future knowledge to balance prosperity and neutrality, knowing that any misstep means death and another restart.