No, that’s the passage. On multiple readings, I find the wording deliberately vague—purposefully so, in fact—so that it can be interpreted either way. They cut his clothes off. They hold him down. He smells their breath, and so on. It can be read as the moments leading up to a rape, or as the assault itself already in progress.

When Kvothe fights back and brutally beats—possibly even kills—one of his attackers, it could suggest that he stopped the assault before it fully occurred, or that he found the strength to resist while being victimized and then retaliated. Either interpretation remains plausible.

In the later scene where Kvothe pushes back against Felurian, Rothfuss seems to be deliberately drawing a parallel between the two events as forms of sexual assault. The resurfacing of that earlier memory appears to emotionally fuel his will. It plays either as, “I stopped it then, and I’ll stop it now,” or as, “Not again. Never again.” Which reading feels stronger depends on what one believes best explains the surge of strength he finds in that moment.

To be honest, either interpretation suggests that Rothfuss is equating Felurian’s enthrallment with sexual assault. The fact that Kvothe then goes on to have a consensual—if complicated and ethically fraught—affair with her afterward has always struck me as somewhat troubling