RWBY - As it turns out, teaching an abused girl to kill things without stopping the abuse is a bad idea

It's a few minutes before midnight when Rhodes arrives at the hotel, which is shown by the clock in the main hall. He probably just came back from a long day of hunting, and is very low on aura because of that. And after both their auras were broken, he probably tried to cease hostilities, believing his student wouldn't do anything if he wasn't threatening her.