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Multi-hop retrieval must find passages that become useful only after intermediate evidence is retrieved. We present SAG2, an embedding-free retriever whose only persistent structure is a SQLite lexical index, built without an LLM. Where SAG and HippoRAG 2 rely on a generative LLM for graph extraction and selection, SAG2 uses a decision model. Given the question and a shared context of selected retrieved passages, the decision model scores whether each candidate supplies an answer-chain fact. Terms activated from the top-scoring passages retrieve unvisited passages through the lexical index, which holds a passage-term hypergraph implicitly. SAG2 reaches Recall@10 of 86.62%, 97.43%, and 99.00% on 1,000-question subsets of MuSiQue, 2WikiMultiHopQA, and HotpotQA, the highest among the compared systems. With a decision model priced at about a fifth of SAG's LLM, indexing and retrieval on MuSiQue cost USD 4.33 against USD 14.85 for SAG. On EnterpriseRAG-Bench, SAG2 reaches 81.12% document Recall@10. As the benchmark's nested corpus grows 447.5-fold, SAG2's Recall@5 lead over BM25 alone widens from 7.28 to 14.76 points, at a nearly constant model cost per question. Because indexing makes no model call, SAG2 suits corpora that change often or must be searchable as soon as they are indexed.