"I don't think I've ever actually hovered before?" Koumyou says with some thought, because being flung through the air by the sutra definitely doesn't count as... hovering. Or flying. It's more of a 'repeatedly thrown' situation.

So with that, the priest lifts a foot to his other knee to start putting them on.

Why not? They obviously work inside the train! And he can muster the energy to put on shoes and stand back up in them, surely.