Waka actually laughed at that. "Why do I need to tell a goddess this?" he asked aloud before turning to Amaterasu. "Divinity isn't something you claim. You are divine or you aren't. And you, ma cherie - Okami Amaterasu - are divine, whether or not you have the powers that generally come with it." He tilted his head in a way that was oddly reminiscent of her own habit of doing the same. "And whether or not you deserve to be divine depends upon your actions, which is to say that lying around and moping aren't particularly godlike activities. Did you need to prove you were a goddess to do godly things in Nippon, or did you perform miracles even without any way to prove that you were the cause because they needed to be performed?"

He finally gave in to temptation, reaching out and patting her head in what to a normal human would be condescending, but to a former wolf could be regarded as a display of affection. "Have I ever steered you wrong?"