But she is dumb enough to stroll around leisurely without her weapon with face changing assassins after her?Nobody is dumb enough to purposely allow themselves to get stabbed up.
If she was gonna set something up, wouldn't she rather set something up so she could kill them
Also the idea would be to fake her death so the assassins wouldn't follow her. Killing one of them doesn't stop the order from another one coming, and another one coming, and another one coming.
Maybe it's something else from what I proposed but something about that scene is off. And I expect "don't make her suffer" was setup for something plot related