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I'll try to answer your question best I can without spoiling anything, but first allow me to post something from the FAQ:
So to answer your question: No. There is no sexual assualt or anything graphic like that. But since you're exact wording is "even the slightest hint", I feel I should mention anything that could be taken that way. Without spoilers: later in the game there is a female student who has been away from her friends for awhile, and so she rubs up against some of the other female students/party members in a suggestive way. One onlooking character says in a dead pan way: "You DO know they could file a sexual harassment claim right?" or something very similar. The character saying that is a friend of all the people involved and was speaking in a joking manner. That entire scenario is meant to be humorous.
But aside from that neither this game nor its direct sequel, Trails of Cold Steel II (coming to PC 2018), have any sexual assault in it.
Now I feel I must mention something else that is of importance: This is not the only game in the series, nor is it stand alone. The thing with the Trails franchise is that there are multiple story arcs all telling an overarching story. As such one must play all the games in said series as they all tell one giant story. I made a spoiler free guide that you can check out here on Steam if you want to see what other games there are and how this franchise and its story arcs work, etc.
Anyway, the reason I am bringing this up is because two other games in this series have something that I feel I should inform you of as well.
Firstly I will give a no specific details account of what is in those games:
Trails in the Sky SC (Second Chapter) has a person retelling a past event and says something that implies that women might have been, uh "sexually assaulted" for lack of a more appropriate word. It is told later by a different person that a man was probably intending to try and "sexually assault" a woman. However this man was killed before he could.
These tellings are shown through drawn stills and contain no graphic imagery that would be unsuitable for "T" rated games. The heavily implied "sexual assault" is not explicitly stated and absolutely nothing is shown.
Trails in the Sky the 3rd on the other hand does have a scene that can be considered graphic. In this game we learn a young female person's backstory. It is undeniably and heavily implied in the wording that said young person was a sex slave, although again, it is never explicitly said.
This telling, like with the above, is shown through drawn stills. Most of the stills contain no graphic imagery, however there is one infamous still that does. This still shows said young person lying on the ground naked with scars on her body. The still is not sexual in any way. There is no detailed or graphic depiction of any gentitalia and there is no explicit nudity in the game, but the young character is clearly not wearing any clothes and it is obvious what has happened. This still is on the screen until you advance a few lines of text, so only a few seconds. It is definitly not missable though.
Also as an aside: Trails in the Sky the 3rd did not get an ESRB rating as it was released only on PC and PC games do not require an ESRB rating to be published on Steam. It has been said however that Sky the 3rd easily could have been given an "M" rating if it did end up getting rated by the ERSB.
Now, I was being as vague as possible with the above posts, but I think I should include a few extra details. I will spoiler tag these though since, while I won't be directly stating the character's name, it probably won't be hard to figure out which character I am referring to in-game so these details are only meant for someone who has either already played those games or for someone like you, OP, who won't mind reading some spoilers if it helps to better answer their question.
Trails in the Sky SC: The first person I mentioned states: "And the women... Even in this telling, there are some things I will not recount" which is where it is implied that "sexual assault" may have happenned. The other person I mentioned states: "The man swatted me away and... forced my sister to the ground." and "At the time, I was too young to know what he probably meant to do." which carries an obvious implication of what the man's intention was. However we are told just a few sentences later that the other person killed him before he had the chance. The woman in question however is killed soon after.
All of these scenes are told as stories of an event from these two people's past. It is told through stills that contain no graphic imagery and everything above is implied, but not explicitely stated.
Trails in the Sky the 3rd: This event that is being shown is also a past event told through stills. The young female person mentioned above is a child who is between the ages of 5 and 11, I do not remember the exact age, but I have heard someone say once that she was 6 years old when this took place. This character has suffered abuse only in her past; it is never shown on screen or in present time. Only in this character's backstory do we learn what happened.
The story of this character's backstory is often considered the "darkest" moment in the series, and Sky the 3rd is often considered one of the darkest games in the series.
There is also some things we learn about this character in two of the currently unlocalized games unofficially called "Trails to Zero" and "Trails to Azure": One other thing that we learn about this girl's backstory is that she was also made to take drugs. I have not personally played these games as they are not in English yet, so I can't tell you how we come to learn of this detail, but it almost certainly is not graphic.
And finally, we learn over the course of the games what happens to this girl: she is adopted by a very loving family and more or less gets a happy and deserved ending. I say more or less because, while this character's story arc is pretty much finished, she may still appear in future games.
Someone who has actually played the Zero and Azure games can probably go into more detail about this.
One thing I feel I must say though is that because of how I have worded all of this, I may have made it sound worse than it is, but I think it's better to overstate it than to understate it, in this case. Falcom, the developers of this franchise are known for their fantastic story-telling and tasteful writing. The backstory in Sky the 3rd and Sky SC are not sexual in any way and are meant to be disturbing. These backstories are not graphic, aside from the one still in the 3rd, and are not sexual or explicit in any way. Everything is said through text and everything that happens is implied, either heavily or vaguely and both Sky the 3rd's and SC's events are told entriely through drawn stills.
The Trails games are very lighthearted most of the time, especially in the first games in an Arc. Trails is light-hearted about 50% of the time, serious about 25% of the time, and dark the other 25% of the time. That is, however, a very rough estimate of the whole series and not this particular game. This entry contains absolutely no "sexual assault" and very little, if any, content that can be considered "dark". Trails games rarely go dark, but when they do it is always well written and not just for the sake of it.
Now the reason I have written about the other games, again, is because all the games in this series are connected and must be played to get the whole story and I didn't want you to get into this game, which is pretty tame on that particular front, and then be surprised by the other games in this series with something you might not have wanted to see, so i thought it best to just inform you of anything that I knew of, and could remember, from all the games.
The Trails games are my favorite game franchise of all time and those few events are the only cases that could be considered "hints of sexual assault". This series is very "T" rated for the most part and can feature very believable/realistic dialogue. This makes the darker moments stand out more when they do appear, but for the most part, while the Trails games occasionally do deal with mature subject matter, they are mostly on the light side for a majority of the game.
I would love for a newcommer to play the series and fall in love with these games as much as I have, but I would hate it more if someone had played them only to find that there was content that they wanted to avoid in it. It is understandable if you do not wish to get into the series after this post, but I would like to restate that these games including those events are for the most part tasteful and well told. And I would say that none of those implications and backstories mentioned above are explicit, graphic (aside from the one still), or sexual.
This post has gotten very long and I probably could have worded it a lot better, so I apologize. Whether you decide try out this series or decide it's not for you, I hope this post has proven helpful. And should you choose to try out this entry, i hope you enjoy it. :)
Happy Gaming!
P.S.
None of the twists in this game or series have anything like that in them to my knowledge. It's more along the lines of "crazy plot stuff happening" and "big reveal" type twists that this series is known for.
About trails in the sky the third. Well we do know that renne is 12 in trails SC and that joshua left ouroboros 5 years before if i'm right. So yeah she was really young. I think we confuse the age sometime because of the design.
I don't remember if it's ever explicitly stated how much time passed between when Renne was taken from Paradise to Ouroboros, when she was accepted as an Enforcer, and when Joshua left the society. We don't know how long she was in training and/or trauma recovery, so it's kinda hard to pinpoint the age. Pretty sure it's somewhere in the 5-7 age bracket.
I get the feeling it's on the younger side. Unless Weissmann used the same manipulation techniques that he did on Joshua (and since the Grandmaster forbade it, I don't think he did), it would have likely taken Renne some time to mentally recuperate enough to begin Enforcer training.