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Originally Posted by Cherry_Lover
She's still a servant. He's just an ordinary human, albeit a well-trained one. If he weren't reinforced by Caster, Rin could probably beat him, and Shirou certainly could (if he were aware of his tracing ability). True, she would just turn him into a smoking crater if she wanted to kill him, but if she were forced to fight him at close range without magic, she could probably so it
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Oh, I'm not saying that if it came to a protracted battle, she wouldn't probably win. Even if only because he couldn't really hurt her. But although she's stronger and faster than him (As I recall, even E-rank for a Servant is higher than a normal human can obtain) she seems to have no actual training or experience in hand-to-hand combat, while he's a trained martial artist and experienced assassin. He could probably, if threatened, at least manage to keep away from her well enough to force her to break out the magic.
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Again, if it were that easy to kill a master when their servant was watching them, then TA would be unstoppable. As soon as he prepares to attack, the servant will notice him, as long as they're with their master at the time.
The involvement of the shadow is plausible, though.
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A Servant who was better at staying cool under pressure, perhaps, but Caster does not have the best track record with handling surprises. In other routes, when things don't go according to her plans she tends to not improvise a new plan on the fly very well and typically gets at least humiliated, if not outright murdered. If TA's 'preparation for attack' consisted of stealthing up to the nearest window and firing one bullet-knife from thirty feet away, it's possible she just wouldn't react well enough in the split second before impact, given the shock that someone managed to get past her guard dog and into the heart of her temple without being noticed (And she must not have noticed, or True Assassin's birth would have been illuminated by a storm of magical death rays instead of the moon).
That said, the Shadow does make it more believable. TA could have much more easily pulled off a surprise attack on Kuzuki if Caster was busy trying to avoid being eaten.