TBBT 4A Apartment.
Leonard faced a question that struck at his soul and had no answer.
Yeah.
He also wondered why he kept hanging around Sheldon.
It made absolutely no sense, like a decision made in a fit of madness.
He couldn't exactly say that Sheldon's female counterpart of a mother had tortured and trained him since childhood until he developed Stockholm Syndrome, could he?
And without that utterly humiliating reason, he really couldn't explain why he clearly disliked Sheldon, yet still stuck with that troublesome little pest.
Adam snickered to himself nearby.
As the saying went: I call you brother, you call me dad—we each go by our own reckoning!
That was actually nothing.
The relationship between these two best friends was even more complicated.
In a sense,
Leonard was Sheldon's Papa Len!
Sheldon was Leonard's Sheldon Mom!
I call you Mom, you call me Dad—we each go by our own reckoning!
Now that was a truly tangled mess!
"Fine."
Sheldon had been glaring as he waited for Leonard's explanation, but after hearing Leonard's stifled self-mockery, he crooked his lips and easily accepted this simplest of answers.
People just liked to make things difficult for themselves.
All the unreasonable things suddenly made sense.
"..."
Leonard felt miserable and exhausted. If he could move right now, he really wanted to pick up the collector's signed Lightsaber Adam had given him and slash Darth Cylon to death with it!
Emmm.
That's right!
The dark Force villain and ultimate Sith Lord in Star Wars was called Darth Cylon!
Just like the Cylons in Battlestar Galactica, they were utterly evil beings.
The answer was right there in the riddle. Only after savoring it carefully would one realize that the truth had always been in everyone's hearts.
"Leonard!"
Seeing Leonard close his eyes and