diff --git a/Dalamud.Bootstrap/Bootstrapper.cs b/Dalamud.Bootstrap/Bootstrapper.cs
index c4a08234c..2f1788833 100644
--- a/Dalamud.Bootstrap/Bootstrapper.cs
+++ b/Dalamud.Bootstrap/Bootstrapper.cs
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 using System;
 using System.IO;
 using System.IO.Pipes;
+using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
 using CoreHook.BinaryInjection.RemoteInjection;
 using CoreHook.BinaryInjection.RemoteInjection.Configuration;
 using CoreHook.IPC.Platform;
@@ -61,7 +62,7 @@ namespace Dalamud.Bootstrap
             
             var newTick = (uint)Environment.TickCount;
             var newKey = newTick & 0xFFFF_0000; // only the high nibble is used
-            
+
             var newArgument = argument
                 .Remove("T")
                 .Add("T", $"{newTick}")
@@ -72,6 +73,9 @@ namespace Dalamud.Bootstrap
             // TODO: launch new exe with the argument from encryptedArgument.ToString()
             // TODO: we also need to figure out where the exe is located
             
+            // This is just for poc purpose.
+            System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(exePath, encryptedArgument.ToString());
+
             process.Terminate();
         }
 
@@ -93,12 +97,12 @@ namespace Dalamud.Bootstrap
         {
             var arguments = process.ReadArguments();
 
-            if (arguments.Length < 1)
+            if (arguments.Length < 2)
             {
                 throw new BootstrapException($"Process id {process.GetPid()} does not have any arguments to parse.");
             }
 
-            var argument = arguments[0];
+            var argument = arguments[1];
             
             if (EncryptedArgument.TryParse(argument, out var encryptedArgument))
             {
diff --git a/Dalamud.Bootstrap/Dalamud.Bootstrap.csproj b/Dalamud.Bootstrap/Dalamud.Bootstrap.csproj
index 17ed9d49c..900e7ad8e 100644
--- a/Dalamud.Bootstrap/Dalamud.Bootstrap.csproj
+++ b/Dalamud.Bootstrap/Dalamud.Bootstrap.csproj
@@ -9,8 +9,9 @@
   </PropertyGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>
+    <PackageReference Include="Pidgin" Version="2.3.0" />
     <PackageReference Include="System.Resources.Extensions" Version="4.7.0" /> <!-- Required by CoreHook to build -->
-    <PackageReference Include="System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Unsafe" Version="4.7.0" />
+    <PackageReference Include="System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Unsafe" Version="4.7.1" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>
diff --git a/Dalamud.Bootstrap/SqexArg/ArgumentBuilder.cs b/Dalamud.Bootstrap/SqexArg/ArgumentBuilder.cs
index 0ef3e210f..edc84c0b5 100644
--- a/Dalamud.Bootstrap/SqexArg/ArgumentBuilder.cs
+++ b/Dalamud.Bootstrap/SqexArg/ArgumentBuilder.cs
@@ -13,14 +13,19 @@ namespace Dalamud.Bootstrap.SqexArg
             m_dict = new Dictionary<string, string>();
         }
 
+        public ArgumentBuilder(IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<string, string>> collection)
+        {
+            m_dict = new Dictionary<string, string>(collection);
+        }
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Creates an argument builder from the argument (e.g. /T =1234)
         /// </summary>
         /// <param name="argument"></param>
         /// <returns></returns>
-        public static ArgumentBuilder Parse(string argument)
+        public static ArgumentBuilder Parse(ReadOnlySpan<char> argument)
         {
-            throw new NotImplementedException("TODO");
+            return new ArgumentBuilder(ArgumentParser.Parse(argument));
         }
 
         public ArgumentBuilder Add(string key, string value)
diff --git a/Dalamud.Bootstrap/SqexArg/ArgumentParser.cs b/Dalamud.Bootstrap/SqexArg/ArgumentParser.cs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7830ecfc5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Dalamud.Bootstrap/SqexArg/ArgumentParser.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using Pidgin;
+using static Pidgin.Parser;
+using static Pidgin.Parser<char>;
+
+namespace Dalamud.Bootstrap.SqexArg
+{
+    public static class ArgumentParser
+    {
+        private static readonly Parser<char, string> KeyMarkerNoEscape = String(" ");
+
+        private static readonly Parser<char, string> KeyMarkerEscape = String(" /");
+
+        private static readonly Parser<char, string> KeyMarker = Try(KeyMarkerEscape).Or(KeyMarkerNoEscape);
+
+        private static readonly Parser<char, string> ValueMarker = String(" =");
+
+        private static readonly Parser<char, char> EscapedSpace = String("  ").ThenReturn(' ');
+
+        //private static readonly Parser<char, string> String = Try(EscapedSpace).Or(AnyCharExcept(' ')).ManyString();
+        private static readonly Parser<char, string> String = Try(EscapedSpace).Or(AnyCharExcept(' ')).ManyString();
+
+        private static readonly Parser<char, KeyValuePair<string, string>> KeyValue = Map
+        (
+            (_, key, _, value) => new KeyValuePair<string, string>(key, value),
+            KeyMarker, String, ValueMarker, String
+        );
+
+        private static readonly Parser<char, IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<string, string>>> Parser = KeyValue.Many();
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Parses the argument
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="input"></param>
+        /// <returns></returns>
+        /// <exception cref="SqexArgException">Thrown when failed to parse the input.</exception>
+        public static IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<string, string>> Parse(ReadOnlySpan<char> input)
+        {
+            var test = KeyMarker.Parse(input);
+            var result = Parser.Parse(input);
+
+            if (!result.Success)
+            {
+                throw new SqexArgException($"Failed to parse the argument.\n{result.Error}");
+            }
+
+            return result.Value;
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/Dalamud.Bootstrap/SqexArg/EncryptedArgument.cs b/Dalamud.Bootstrap/SqexArg/EncryptedArgument.cs
index 36706d4e0..9e4bdd1c3 100644
--- a/Dalamud.Bootstrap/SqexArg/EncryptedArgument.cs
+++ b/Dalamud.Bootstrap/SqexArg/EncryptedArgument.cs
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 using System;
 using System.Buffers;
 using System.Buffers.Text;
+using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
 using System.Text;
 using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
 using Dalamud.Bootstrap.Crypto;
@@ -90,7 +91,7 @@ namespace Dalamud.Bootstrap.SqexArg
             // plainText <- utf8Bytes <- encryptedBytes(payload) <- base64(payloadStr)
 
             // base64: 3 bytes per 4 characters
-            // We also want the size to be aligned with the block size.
+            // We also want the size to be aligned with the block size. Usually this is not a problem but we don't know what payload is actually from.
             var dataLength = (payload.Length / 4) * 3;
             var alignedDataLength = AlignBufferLength(dataLength);
             var encryptedData = new byte[alignedDataLength];
@@ -112,9 +113,14 @@ namespace Dalamud.Bootstrap.SqexArg
             blowfish.Decrypt(encryptedData, decryptedData);
 
             // utf8Bytes -> C# string
-            var plainText = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(decryptedData[..dataLength]);
-
-            return plainText;
+            // notice that decryptedData is a null terminated string.
+            unsafe
+            {
+                fixed (byte* pDecryptedData = decryptedData)
+                {
+                    return Marshal.PtrToStringUTF8(new IntPtr(pDecryptedData));
+                }
+            }
         }
 
         /// <summary>
diff --git a/Dalamud.Bootstrap/Windows/Process.cs b/Dalamud.Bootstrap/Windows/Process.cs
index 451d14434..fbfc3b20f 100644
--- a/Dalamud.Bootstrap/Windows/Process.cs
+++ b/Dalamud.Bootstrap/Windows/Process.cs
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ namespace Dalamud.Bootstrap
             {
                 FileTime creationTime, exitTime, kernelTime, userTime;
 
-                if (Win32.GetProcessTimes(m_handle, &creationTime, &exitTime, &kernelTime, &userTime))
+                if (!Win32.GetProcessTimes(m_handle, &creationTime, &exitTime, &kernelTime, &userTime))
                 {
                     ProcessException.ThrowLastOsError(GetPid());
                 }
diff --git a/Dalamud.Injector/Options.cs b/Dalamud.Injector/Options.cs
index ab473cc63..beaa0f949 100644
--- a/Dalamud.Injector/Options.cs
+++ b/Dalamud.Injector/Options.cs
@@ -8,10 +8,10 @@ namespace Dalamud.Injector
         [Option('p', "pid", Required = true, HelpText = "A target process id to inject.")]
         public uint Pid { get; set; }
 
-        [Option("root", Required = false)]
+        [Option("root")]
         public string? RootDirectory { get; set; }
 
-        [Option("bin", Required = false)]
+        [Option("bin")]
         public string? BinaryDirectory { get; set; }
     }
 
diff --git a/Dalamud.Injector/Program.cs b/Dalamud.Injector/Program.cs
index 18ba8f4b0..41ed53458 100644
--- a/Dalamud.Injector/Program.cs
+++ b/Dalamud.Injector/Program.cs
@@ -10,13 +10,17 @@ namespace Dalamud.Injector
     {
         private static void Main(string[] args)
         {
+            var pid = 12336u;
+            var binDirectory = "";
+            var rootDirectory = "";
+
             var boot = new Bootstrapper(new BootstrapperOptions
             {
                 BinaryDirectory = "",
                 RootDirectory = "",
             });
 
-            boot.Launch("", "");
+            boot.Relaunch(pid);
 
             Parser.Default.ParseArguments<InjectOptions, LaunchOptions>(args)
                 .WithParsed<InjectOptions>(Inject)
@@ -25,6 +29,7 @@ namespace Dalamud.Injector
 
         private static void Inject(InjectOptions options)
         {
+            var pid = options.Pid;
             var binDirectory = options.BinaryDirectory ?? GetDefaultBinaryDirectory();
             var rootDirectory = options.RootDirectory ?? GetDefaultRootDirectory();
 
@@ -34,7 +39,7 @@ namespace Dalamud.Injector
                 RootDirectory = rootDirectory,
             });
 
-            boot.Relaunch(options.Pid);
+            boot.Relaunch(pid);
         }
 
         private static void Launch(LaunchOptions options)