The 4 H bound state and the S-wave hypertriton( 3 H)-scattering in spin singlet and triplet channels below the hypertriton breakup momentum scale are studied in halo/cluster effective field theory at leading order by treating the 4 H system as a three-cluster ( --deuteron) system. In the spin singlet channel, the amplitude is insensitive to the cutoff parameter c introduced in the integral equation, and we find that there is no bound state. In this case, the scattering length of the hypertriton-scattering is found to be a 0 = 16.0 ± 3.0 fm. In the spin triplet channel, however, the amplitude obtained by the coupled integral equations is sensitive to c , and we introduce the three-body contact interaction g 1 ( c ). After phenomenologically fixing g 1 ( c ), we find that the correlation between the two-separation energy B from the 4 H bound state and the scattering length a of the S-wave -scattering is significantly sensitive to the value of c .