Protagonist seem to have accepted her true self and returned to her normal life.

Although Vivi is only one entity, she ends up controlling like 3 other entities by the late part of the story, and she can use them simultaneously for her plots. Which is why the switching and plotting is sometimes a bit hard to follow.

7 years ago, Ra's al Ghul tried to summon the projection of an Eldritch Horror to grant him immortality. The location of this summoning attempt was in Gotham City. At the time, a nameless orphan working at the mines was captured and killed as a sacrifice, cause summoning Eldritch Horrors tend to ask for human lives as summoning sacrifices. This orphan has the brand "VV" on the back of her neck. When we start the story, we're told that Vivi is the main game character created by the "player". However, she uses AA "Anna Alek" to act as mayor. This is like creating multiple game characters for one RPG, and you can switch between characters.

The major hint that it isnt a game for me was halfway through the story and she never ever logged out, not even once. As a gaming addict, I can play for days on end but I still need to sleep and actually rest, eat and do other human stuff. Vivi never logged out of the game in the first half, which lead me to wonder if she had more stamina than me or if this was a hint that she was trapped in the game or something.

Every single one of Vivi's identities is useful to the game. Vivi herself is the main point of contact used to interact with the superheroes. Anna Alec "AA" is mayor of the city (does everything related to mayoral approval and used for her ties to the Diamond family of New York and the R family, from the Court of Owls in Gotham City). Bella Bettywen "BB" is a police officer, later on Warden of the prison, originally useful for the 1st half of the story and then delegated to more of a backseat role. Mr. C "CC" is a sock puppet used to pretend theres someone backing Vivi and shes not just some player drawing things out of nowhere. Daisy Diamond "DD" appears in the second half of the story once BB isnt as useful, used to assist AA and interact with ancient magical texts.

Vivi actually represents the soul of the City of New Gotham. There's the centuries old Gotham City who has a city soul, but also a separate city soul for the new city of Gotham rebuilt on the old city. Human vessels aren't enough to contain Eldritch horrors, so the descent was rather into the soul of a city. But since Gotham had two city souls, things didn't go according to plan. The summoning failed. Every one of Vivi's AA, BB, CC, DD's identities were linked to a real person, who had to die before they could be assigned to Vivi's game interface, their deaths and situations will be revealed in the last 10 chapters of the story.

I dont consider there to be any romance in the story. But I do admit the author probably has a bias for Jason Todd (Red Mask) cause he's the member of the Bat family that shows up the most with the MC. But considering that MC takes on the form of an 8 year old child as Vivi, they all feel a sense of protection towards her, not love. The ending is an open one, there isn't a final talk or chat, not even in the extra chapters, where the MC reveals what she really decides to do in the end.