To First Step
Dan may have forgotten his memories, but his values and sensibilities were the same. For now, Sasha and Raul decided to keep Dan's memory loss to themselves. Thus, they were able to secure the forces of the remaining two lords, though they do not amount to much.
Dan, though he lost his memory, through his knowledge, seems to retain a fair amount of the know-how about the Fronteir and the barrier.
While Raul and Dan got busy with the movement of the army, Sasha returned to the mountain kingdom once more, to put the affairs of the mountain kingdom in order.
Meanwhile, the capital was boiling.
Darius was delivered by Sasha to a nearby mountain in the dead of the night.
It was a starless night. Within the snow and dark of the night, the Moon snow almost seems to vanish into the very scenery if it wishes to do so.
This journey would have taken a full two months, in Winter, Darius realized.