The final chapter ends with MC being given the option to return to the real world, but we never see what he actually chooses. Instead, three different possible endings are explored in side stories.

To me, that's a massive failure in storytelling. It suggests the author never firmly established the emotional stakes—how much MC actually cares about this world and these people, what he stands to gain or lose, etc. After this many chapters, it shouldn't feel like a coin toss. The fact that it does just highlights how underdeveloped his character (and relationships) are. Wth???

Also, actually, the three different endings really deserve their own callout because they somehow make everything worse instead of better.

The so-called "Good Ending" is a single short chapter where MC just goes "yeah I want to go home, " wishes everyone well, and leaves. That's it. After 400+ chapters, that's the emotional resolution we get. Then we cut to him back in the real world, immediately being shoved back into work despite having just gotten out of the hospital, stuck in a wheelchair for two months because emergency responders had to pry him out of his VR pod and broke his legs in the process. There's a vague implication his junior coworker might be Rabi, but it's not explored in any meaningful way.

So the "good" outcome is... MC returning to a life that seems actively miserable, with zero indication he's gained anything emotionally or psychologically from the experience. Which raises the obvious question: what was the point? A god literally offered to grant him basically any wish, and this is what it amounts to?

The "Normal Ending" (3 chapters) has MC choosing to stay—but notably, not because of the MLs. Instead, it hinges on two NPCs (his adoptive daughter and a goblin friend) who had died during his earlier gameplay. These are characters he bonded with before the whole "this might actually be real" situation, unlike most of the MLs, whom he only met after being trapped.

So his decision to stay ends up reinforcing the exact problem the story never resolves: he's more emotionally invested in people he categorized as NPCs during "game mode" than in the MLs he interacted with in a "real" context. It undercuts the entire supposed emotional arc. Then, those two NPCs get resurrected via deus ex machina, and the rest of the ending is mostly abrupt, poorly contextualized smut meant to signal that he now cohabitates with the MLs. There's no real exploration of how his mindset changed, no meaningful reconciliation, just... "and now they live together and have s*x." It feels less like an ending and more like the author checking a box.

And then the "Bad Ending." (3 chapters) MC leaves, the MLs' lives fall apart, and they end up kidnapping him back into the game world where they essentially decide to keep him as a soulless s*x s*ave because they can't trust him not to leave again. The framing is basically "if we can't have his love, we'll take his body."

Which is... fine as a dark AU concept, but here it reads less like a deliberate thematic exploration and more like hastily written, almost mechanical smut.

The bigger issue is that none of these endings feel proportionate to a 429-chapter story. They don't resolve the central conflict (MC's refusal to acknowledge reality), they don't clarify his emotional priorities, and they don't meaningfully develop his relationships. Instead, they sidestep all of that by offering three mutually incompatible outcomes, as if variety can substitute for actual narrative payoff.

Multiple endings can work, but only when they highlight clearly defined stakes and character trajectories. Here, the fact that all three are supposed to feel equally plausible exposes how underdeveloped everything is. After this many chapters, it shouldn't feel like you can swap in three completely different conclusions without breaking anything. It feels like the story just... stops, shrugs, and hands you a grab bag of half-baked resolutions.