The transfer from Milan to the Western Front was one that would require a lot of moving parts and time to do so. As a result, the 8th Army who had engaged in most of the fighting up until this point had been ordered a brief leave of absence.
This gave time to the King of England, and his cousins Kaiser Wilhelm II, and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia to reach some form of understanding regarding Britain's future in the war. The battle of Ypres itself had frozen.
Leaving Bruno time to return to the fatherland and gain some much needed rest. Bruno, unencumbered by past trauma and the grim darkness of war, had a rather excitable expression on his face as he stepped off the train in Berlin.