Sicilian Defense

Learn the poisoned pawn variation in the Najdorf Sicilian! Crush your opponents like MVL.
Kidding, of course. At your level you really shouldn't focus on mastering any specific opening. All you need to know is general opening principles and just a few first moves of most common openings.
As White I've been learning the Alapin against the Scilian. Build a pawn centre and then play opening principles, knights out, bishops out, castle etc. Give it a try. Doesn't need much theory to get started. The main reason is I'm lazy. I just one to stick my pawns in the centre and develop my pieces in the opening. I put more effort into the middlegame and endgame.

As White I've been learning the Alapin against the Scilian. Build a pawn centre and then play opening principles, knights out, bishops out, castle etc. Give it a try. Doesn't need much theory to get started. The main reason is I'm lazy. I just one to stick my pawns in the centre and develop my pieces in the opening. I put more effort into the middlegame and endgame.
many sicilian variations kind of disregard the opening principles beginners are taught to learn though

i don't really think you should learn the sicilian at your rating. it is a very complex opening that requires a lot of hard work to master. it would be better imo to play something more simple
Even Grandmasters benefit from tactics training, that should be your priority for quite a while.

Practice. As your sensi would say wax on wax off-Karate Kid
That's sensei. "si" in Japanese is more like "shi" as in sushi.
Feel smart now? You just learned some nihongo.