[Yukine has tried to cut the strings. He really had. Using his line hadn't done anything (not that it surprised him, really... he had been expecting that result the moment he'd decided to try it out) and now he was in a mess of strings that he had no idea what to do with.
It didn't help that there were a couple ones cut off, as if mocking him. It gave him even more reason to want the strings off. Even if things had gotten complicated when Yato was around, that didn't mean he didn't miss him, and Hiyori and Kazuma.
Soon he finds that trying to pick one string and follow it was a good enough distraction to keep his mind from going there. It's hard when some of the strings get tangled, but he'll still follow them all.]