The news about being able to take leave and return home to visit family spread through the base quickly, affecting everyone's emotions.
Although everyone had come to Lucia with full awareness, and despite the heavy workload and harsh environment over the past six months, it wasn't too unbearable overall. Persevering for a few months is indeed not too much to ask.
But everything becomes difficult once it starts. After knowing that the higher-ups were discussing the possibility of allowing people to return home for visits, everyone was inevitably stirred emotionally.
They are currently in Lucia, far away from their homeland, with at least several thousand kilometers of distance separating them from their country. The physical distance has severed their contact with home.
