Ok. From what I've been learning from this show is that things at hand don't look the way they're shown at the surface.
The resolution for Touma took a reversed turn, in which everything ended up fine for Heroine and Touma, and she even got apologies from those nut, Ikki-fans due that Ikki learned the truth of what was happening to the Heroine; that whole segment lasted only a third of the episode.
For the remainder I finally learned about the mysterious Joker character, at least his name, Ukyo.
What I could confirm from the now current world in which possibly Ukyo deliberately threw Heroine into:
It is still early to go deep into theories and speculation, until I get more info shed into the light in next week's episode.