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I have a third alternative explanation. The assassin was out of ideas because the target couldn't be dealt with ”fast and smooth.” He couldn't be caught by surprised. (They already tried that and Hikone killed them) And neither did big fire ball explosions worked.I've offered an alternative explanation. Maybe one of the assassins figured his attack would be faster and tried it out. Maybe he didn't grasp that Tokinada could also reflect his attack. Maybe he just wasn't that clever.
I don't care for this "word association fallacy", you're also associating the phrase "lightning strike" to mean some kind of physical attack. Nothing of the sort concretely happened.